According to NASA, the shuttle was lost about 15 minutes ... program came to a close on July 21, 2011, when Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It had been more than 40 years ...

The man who led a NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion has died William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the ...

NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore have been on the International Space Station since June, ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11.

From realistic NASA-based shuttles to fun lunar playsets ... Not only does this epic set let you recreate your very own scale model of the Space Shuttle Discovery, it also comes with a Hubble ...

With Donald Trump vowing to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars” during his current presidency, and the first ...

Leland Melvin—engineer, educator, and a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver—reflects on his lifelong passion for ...

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The proceedings commemorated the lives lost in NASA's three space tragedies — the Apollo 1 fire in January 1967, the space shuttle Challenger explosion in January 1986 and the shuttle Columbia ...