After a week in orbit, the Space Shuttle’s most dangerous phase begins: re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. Traveling at Mach 25 (7 km/s), the shuttle faces temperatures hotter than molten lava, forming ...

Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months, have ...

SpaceX's ninth operational crew return from the International Space Station is set to splash down on Tuesday, March 18, at ...

NASA Crew-9 astronauts Sunita Williams, Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov breathed earthly ...

When Space Shuttle Columbia ... to the safety of the orbiting shuttle and its crew. As is all too well known, two weeks later Columbia disintegrated upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere.