Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill**: This 2010 environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in a spill of millions of ...

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.

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 parts for a 1972 full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city block closer to being reassembled and restored for display. The City of Downey, California began relocating "Inspiration." ...

Scientists are sending mouse sperm to space. They want to see if mammals can reproduce there. The sperm is stored on 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 ...

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 ...

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