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

Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spacecraft has taken a significant step toward operational missions. The uncrewed spaceplane ...

Pontiac-based program relied on big cubic inches to help usher America’s nascent shuttle design into the later space age.

Photo: Xinhua As China's aerospace industry achieved a record-breaking 68 rocket launches in the past ... such as the Haoloong space cargo shuttle, Qingzhou cargo spacecraft, launched aboard ...

Astra launches its Rocket 3.3 from Cape Canaveral ... a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Space Coast. The crew of Space Shuttle Challenger, STS-51-L. The seven astronauts were killed when the ...

Students gathered around model space shuttles ... 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 to rip apart ...

USA TODAY's page one with the Challenger space shuttle explosion on Jan. 29 ... a a piece of foam that fell from the external rocket tank during launch, which opened a hole in a shuttle wing ...

2025 coins celebrate Florida's and Texas' advancements in space exploration. The space shuttle and International Space Station are set to launch onto dollar coins in celebration of the ...

Students gathered around model space shuttles. Teachers switched on TVs ... attributed to a a piece of foam that fell from the external rocket tank during launch, which opened a hole in a shuttle wing ...

On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger ... to separate the sections of the rocket booster, had failed due to cold temperatures on the morning of the launch. The disaster resulted ...