Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger knows it was a national tragedy. But dig a little deeper, and it's even more heartbreaking.

War Thunder devs had to apologize over the weekend after players quickly noticed that a newly added loading screen featured ...

Immediately after take-off on 16 January 2003, the US space shuttle Columbia sustained some ostensibly minor damage. The seven crew were reassured by Nasa that it had "no concerns" about the craft ...

The shuttle launches were a beacon to many worldwide for optimism in science, so Challenger's loss was both national disaster and a blow to the space programme. This wasn't America's first space ...

This wasn’t an ordinary mission—it was NASA’s so-called “Return to Flight” mission as it took place around a year after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, which killed all seven ...

The Buran spacecraft was a space shuttle developed by the Soviet Union in response to NASA's space shuttle program. Buran, which means “snowstorm” in Russian, flew one time. NASA's space ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A tech billionaire who bought a series of spaceflights from Elon Musk 's SpaceX and conducted the ...

Home videos reveal her running to space shuttle training after feeding and ... after the Columbia disaster. Eileen Collins’ fourth and final mission came on the heels of the tragic Columbia ...