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.
On Feb. 8, 2010, space shuttle Endeavour began its 24th trip into space, on the 20A assembly mission to the International ...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX lost its 400-foot-tall Starship in space where it was destroyed ... caught the rocket booster at the launch pad for the second time ever. SpaceX used giant mechanical arms ...
It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which ...
The first shuttle mission of 1995, STS-63 included several historic firsts. As part of Phase 1 of the International Space ...
It was the morning of Jan. 28, the day of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Icicles formed on the launch pad and service tower in the evening and early morning hours on January 28 ...
It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people ... shuttle and STS-61C mission just miles away at Launch Pad 39A. Weather conditions only exacerbated the delays ...
Jan. 15: SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39-A at 1:11 a.m. with both the Firefly Aerospace ... a veteran of three space shuttle flights, were pulled from the mission. This is ...
The space shuttle flight program came to a close on ... as well as the three who died in the Apollo 1 launch pad fire in 1967 and the Columbia accident, every year at the end of January NASA ...