It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, exploding in mere minutes.

On this date in 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded seconds after liftoff, destroying the orbiter and killing her crew of seven.

It will take a long time to get over ... NASA relaunched shuttle flights on Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center. Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another ...

Sierra Space officials announced the autonomous spacecraft successfully completed and passed testing milestones in ...

It would take two years of investigations and modifications before a NASA space shuttle flew into ... Atlantis' journey capped off the shuttle era, following Discovery’s final flight in February ...

And because China is looking to greatly expand its space station in the coming years, the Haolong shuttle could provide ... Haolong is still far from taking to the skies as the project's design ...

there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the story behind them is fascinating. The push for printers in space came from the combined forces of NASA’s love for checklists and the need ...

Sierra Space's "mini shuttle" Dream Chaser space plane may make ... After the Vulcan lifts off from the Cape, NASA and the company will put the space plane "through its paces once in-orbit ...

The Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum ‘Remembering Columbia’ Museum in Hemphill works to preserve the legacy of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its STS-107 crew. As part of the 20th annual ...