The Space Shuttle was a groundbreaking achievement in aerospace engineering—combining the power of a rocket with the ...

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.

The Space Force would not confirm a target launch date for the mission, but its fiscal 2025 budget set late 2025 or 2026 as ...

NASA Blue mach diamonds from the main engine nozzles and bright exhaust from the solid rocket boosters mark the successful ...

William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle ...

President Ronald Reagan immediately appointed a commission to investigate and report on the circumstances that led up to the ...

The first of two vessels carrying 1,000 tons of a Chinese-made chemical that could be a key component in fuel for Iran’s ...

Students gathered around model space shuttles ... 73 seconds after liftoff after a failure in the shuttle’s right solid rocket booster. On Jan. 28, 1986, a family from Detroit watches the ...

Lucas was director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville ... the cause of the explosion pointed to the shuttle’s solid-fuel booster rockets as the likely culprit and criticized ...