When NASA's space shuttle program was announced back in 1972, it was billed as a major advance — a key step in humanity's quest to exploit and explore space. The shuttle would enable safe, frequent ...

April 12 - 14, 1981 The inaugural launch of the space shuttle Columbia, piloted by Apollo veteran John Young and astronaut Robert Crippen. By happenstance, it was also the 20th anniversary of the ...

Jan. 28, 1986, 7 spacefarers were killed when shuttle Challenger exploded midair after launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...

In shaking up its Artemis lunar program, NASA's new moon plan looks more like the Apollo missions of the 1960s. Instead of ...

At the core of Isaacman’s concerns is the low flight rate of the SLS rocket and Artemis missions. During past exploration ...

The space shuttle Atlantis and four astronauts returned from the International Space Station on Thursday, bringing to an end NASA’s 30-year shuttle program. A record crowd of 2,000 gathered near the ...