Within minutes of news of the Sputnik victory, the Jet Propulsion ... research led to the first space shuttle, Columbia, in 1981. Columbia and subsequent four, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis ...

1963-1972 – NASA’s Apollo program seeks to establish the technology to meet other national interests in space, to carry out a ... 1986 – The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, killing ...

As it flew up toward the International Space Station last summer, the Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters. A NASA ...

When Briones and others gathered at the starting line for the first LA marathon, President Ronald Reagan had just been reelected and few weeks prior the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded ...

The CRJ100/200 was developed from the original Bombardier Challenger business jet, a 1970s design ... Named after a NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, Rick Husband ...

"This test confirmed that all components — software, mechanical linkages, and control laws — work together as intended." ...

The Orbital Carrier is being designed by Seattle-based company Gravitics and is funded through the Space Force's SpaceWERX development office, which partners with private industry to develop new ...

The U.S. military's classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days. The space plane blasted into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in December ...

NASA's newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday ... glasses," said deputy project manager Beth Fabinsky of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. To keep the infrared detectors super ...

Last year, St. Cloud Inventor Felicity-John Pederson had a replica of the Space Shuttle moved from Florida to Minnesota with plans to use it as part of a museum. We’ve learned Pederson no longer ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days. The space plane blasted into orbit from NASA ...