NASA’s oldest serving astronaut returned to Earth on Saturday following a 7-month mission on board the International Space ...

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

Just 16 minutes before its scheduled landing February 1, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated ... NASA is investigating the disaster, and an independent probe is being led by retired U.S ...

Taking to Twitter to confirm the 70-year-old's safe return to Earth, NASA wrote: "Home sweet Houston. @NASA_Astronauts Don ...

Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the ...

Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia launched the Chandra ... possibly leading to an abort landing or requiring two tons of OMS propellant to make up, we wound up being only 15 fps ...

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 ...

The pad was originally used during NASA's Apollo era in the 1960s but was revamped to serve the space shuttle in the 1970s ... the history-making launch and landing in the window below: SpaceX ...

An all-female crew, including singer Katy Perry, flew into space on a Blue Origin rocket. They touched down back on Earth ...

The Space Shuttle Columbia, the first of its kind, has just made an absolutely picture-perfect landing on this dry lakebed." Nick Charles: Seven months later to the day, another successful launch ...

When Space Shuttle ... orbiting shuttle and its crew. As is all too well known, two weeks later Columbia disintegrated upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere. In the wake of the disaster, accident ...

She spoke about NASA’s second space shuttle disaster, in 2003 ... and Boeing are developing new space taxis; and developing landing systems and protocols for the upcoming Artemis lunar missions ...