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.

By switching the next space station crew to a different ferry ship, the Starliner astronauts will get home a bit earlier than planned.

On Thursday afternoon, Wright stood by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on display at Kennedy ... machine — protected the space shuttle and its crew from the heat of reentry into Earth's atmosphere.

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 ...