Both the 2003 Columbia and 1986 Challenger space shuttle disasters, which resulted in fatalities, received the "Type A mishap ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 28th January 1986: An abstract smoke pattern after the space shuttle Challenger explosion, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.Dave ...

NASA astronaut Suni Williams has retired after 27 years of service and a career defined by endurance, leadership, and firsts in space. She spent 608 days in orbit, completed nine spacewalks, and twice ...

SpaceX padded the record for its most-flown rocket booster late Saturday with its 33rd trip to space. A Falcon 9 flying 28 Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space ...

Sen. Mark Kelly, a former NASA astronaut, was censured by Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth. Before his political career, Kelly was a Navy fighter pilot and flew four space shuttle missions. Kelly's ...

Pad 39A is well known for crewed launches, yet that chapter is over for the foreseeable future as SpaceX prepares for Starship.

Click to open image viewer. NASA presented this flag, mission patch, and certificate to the Museum as mementos of the historic first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1 in 1981. Commander John Young and ...