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.

Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another shuttle and its crew were lost in the ... 2011, when Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It had been more than 40 years ...

Founded in 1990, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame is part of the Heroes & Legends attraction at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Harris and Whitson's likenesses, etched in glass and mounted ...

NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore have been on the International Space Station since June, ...

Allen went on to log more than 900 hours in space piloting two shuttle missions (STS-46 on Atlantis in 1992 and ... which honors the 17 crew members lost during the three fateful missions.