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

This is the reality faced by the space shuttle nearly every ... 1990s but one that solved many problems for NASA, including the need to keep the shuttle’s launch weight as low as possible.

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.

"This design presents an image of a NASA space shuttle lifting off from Launch ... Innovation series to focus on space themes. The first, issued for Delaware in 2019, honored astronomer Annie ...

Tal Ramon, son of Ilan Ramon who died on board Space Shuttle ... to launch on the first crewed mission of the Apollo lunar landing program. The ceremony, attended by former NASA astronauts ...

Read full article: INTERACTIVE: The NASA astronauts and employees ... who was expected to be the first teacher in space. The Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L mission was expected to deploy a ...

It was the first time American ... practices to improve safety, NASA relaunched shuttle flights on Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center. Seventeen years after the ...

NASA's Challenger shuttle exploded 73 seconds after lifting ... Millions of Americans, including schoolchildren hoping to see the first teacher in space, witnessed the tragedy on broadcast as ...