White House says he will fly to Houston on Feb 4 to attend memorial service for shuttle crew; makeshift shrines rise at Johnson Space Center in Houston and at Cape Canaveral in Florida; photos (L ...

(Photo: Agencies) The crew of Space Shuttle Challenger flight 51-L makes their way from their quarters to the launch pad on January 27, 1986, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Leading the group ...

That followed the catastrophic launch failure of the space shuttle Challenger in January 1986. Both incidents caused the loss of all crew onboard ... pushed to obtain pictures of the damaged ...

This is the second installment of a two-part series about the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Read part one here. Elevation ...

HE’S JOINED BY SHUTTLE COMMANDER ... far into orbit. The crew will be more than 400 miles away from our planet. The Hubble space telescope, which has been taking pictures for decades, is 320 ...

Cavender’s Boot City is donating memorabilia to the Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport that was given to Cavenders by the crew members of NASA’s STS-96 mission to the ...

Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon are set to fly higher than the record set in 1990, during the space shuttle ... Dawn crew lands at launch site ahead of 1st-ever private spacewalk mission (photos ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off in the early hours last Tuesday morning carrying a private astronaut crew led by a billionaire ...

The first reason is Elon Musk, whose singular vision and hard-driving leadership propelled SpaceX through its many ups and ...

An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts successfully launched Wednesday for a six-month mission to the International ...