But just 73 seconds after blast-off, the shuttle burst into flames, leaving a cloud of smoke in the sky before it plummeted ...

And no tragedy is more indelible than the space shuttle Challenger disaster. “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space,” by Adam Higginbotham, is a superb ...

Andrew 'Andy' Freed is most well-known for being a Purdue professor, teaching notable classes taken by a large majority of ...

For a brief period in the 1980s, astronauts went untethered outside their space capsule, flying with jet packs. The photos are amazing -- and terrifying.

On April 14, Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket took an all-female crew of celebrity astronauts to outer space, and in the ...

who was chosen to go into space in 1986 and teach a class on board the Challenger space shuttle. She and her fellow crew members died after the shuttle exploded shortly after launch. Also read ...

Divers looking for World War Two aircraft wreckage off Florida have found debris from the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster. Newly-released footage filmed in May 2022 shows the moment it was ...

but ever since she and the crew from the Space shuttle Challenger touched down, Sally Ride has been cruising on *** different kind of high. This morning, the California native received ...

The telescope's original October 1986 launch was scrapped after the loss of the space shuttle Challenger. When the telescope finally became operational in 1990, it began to return unprecedented ...