Construction workers first carved the footprint for the launch pad from the Florida wetlands more than 60 years ago. NASA ...
Pad 39A is well known for crewed launches, yet that chapter is over for the foreseeable future as SpaceX prepares for Starship.
Dream Chaser is finally ready for launch after more than a decade of development. Sierra Space has moved the Tenacity cargo space plane and its Shooting Star module into final testing at NASA’s Neil ...
The space shuttle Challenger explosion was a defining moment of the 1980s. Whether you were watching on TV or in person, ...
When a spacecraft comes home without people on board, it is not a cinematic failure but a carefully choreographed engineering choice. From military spaceplanes to commercial capsules, uncrewed returns ...
The crew for the space shuttle Challenger flight 51-L leaves their quarters for the launch pad, Jan. 27, 1986, at the Kennedy ...
Forty years after the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated shortly after liftoff, the disaster remains one of the most consequential tragedies in U.S. spaceflight history.
NASA's space shuttle Challenger completed 10 missions before it broke apart during a launch in 1986, killing seven astronauts ...