The first shuttle mission of 1995, STS-63 included several historic firsts. As part of Phase 1 of the International Space ...

The STS-63 mission, more popularly dubbed as the near-Mir mission, was a successful mission that spanned from February 3-11, ...

O-ring erosion on Discovery would have disastrous effects a year later It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which engineers ...

Scientists have found a rare Einstein ring in “our cosmic backyard” using images from the Euclid space telescope. The discovery, published in the journal Astronomy And Astrophysics, is of a circle of ...

It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, exploding in mere minutes.

Today marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (Mission STS-51-L), when the shuttle's seven astronauts were killed by an explosion.

The seven astronauts were killed when the shuttle broke apart ... who died in the pursuit of space exploration and discovery. As we reflect on the Challenger mission 39 years later, we want ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy ...

It was the first time American astronauts were killed in flight, spanning 56 manned missions ... relaunched shuttle flights on Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center.

On February 24, 2011 NASA’s final launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery was broadcast on television internationally. The guiding voice of that entire mission heard through ... he’s carved out a little ...