While rocket launches from the Kennedy Space Center are routine, relatively few are timed optimally to allow for viewing so ...

25 years ago, NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on mission STS-99 with the groundbreaking Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) onboard. Among the crew was German ESA astronaut Gerhard Thiele.

The Cupola, delivered with the Tranquility Module (AKA Node 3), was carried to orbit as a payload on STS-130, flown by Space ...

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 temperature was predicted to be a record low for a Space Shuttle launch. 9:38 a.m. was the launch ... The orbiter broke up over the Atlantic Ocean, and those seven lives were lost.

much of it over Hemphill, Texas. The disaster was attributed to a a piece of foam that fell from the external rocket tank during launch, which opened a hole in a shuttle wing that caused the craft ...