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

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

The five crew members launched on the three-day ... brittle and more susceptible to erosion. A year later, the Space Shuttle Challenger would launch under similar conditions and be lost.

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

Bruce McCandless II. Photo: NASA NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II stepped away from the Space Shuttle Challenger on Feb. 7, 1984, using a jet-powered backpack called the Manned Manoeuvring Unit ...

SpaceX is targeting liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a three-hour launch window opening at 11:20 p.m. ET. The international crew includes Mission Commander Chun Wang ...

A blockchain entrepreneur, a cinematographer, a polar adventurer and a robotics researcher plan to fly around Earth’s poles ...