In a conference call with NASA officials the night before Challenger was scheduled to launch ... of concerns about the weather. Lawrence Mulloy, the chief of the booster rocket program at Marshall ...

Adam Higginbotham’s new book delves deep into the tragedy of the Challenger explosion and the impact the disaster has had on American culture. Apple Podcasts will only work on MacOS operating ...

After the end of the space shuttle program, NASA turned to private companies to fill the gap. That isn't working out for the best.

Lucas, a NASA rocket scientist who helped shape the ... the 1986 explosion that killed all seven crew members aboard the Challenger space shuttle, died Feb. 10 at his home in Huntsville, Alabama.

William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, has died. Lucas was 102. Lucas died Monday at his home in ...

NASA told its staff Monday that the space agency will start cutting its ranks − including the office of its chief scientist − as part of a "broader governmentwide restructuring effort.

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A NASA planetary defense mission will ride to space atop a SpaceX rocket two and a half years from now. The agency announced on Friday (Feb. 21) that it has selected Elon Musk's company to launch ...

Among other changes, Vanessa Wyche, who previously led Johnson Space Center, has been named NASA's acting associate administrator. NASA continues to reshape its leadership tier. The agency ...

NASA has abruptly closed its chief-scientist office, along with 2 other offices, firing 23 employees. The 10 March action leaves the agency without a way of feeding independent science advice to ...

Rockets launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, which is an hour east of Orlando theme parks. Godspeed, Athena. A Falcon 9 is set to launch a ...

NASA's Artemis campaign envisions the moon as being a crucial pit stop to prepare U.S. astronauts and their vehicles to travel onward to Mars. The U.S. company that made history in 2024 with an ...