Lucas, a NASA rocket ... its first space station, and who later shouldered part of the blame for the 1986 explosion that killed all seven crew members aboard the Challenger space shuttle, died ...

William R. Lucas, a NASA rocket scientist who helped shape the nation's first satellite as well as its first space station, and who later shouldered part of the blame for the 1986 explosion that ...

Facing unprecedented heat during returns through the atmosphere, simplicity was the order of the day for the shuttle, as reducing the exposure of sensitive flight surfaces such as wings and ailerons ...

In the final years of World War II, Nazi Germany conceived an ambitious weapon: the Silbervogel, or "Silver Bird," a ...

The U.S. military's classified mini space shuttle has returned to Earth after circling the world for 434 days.

It was the deadliest US space flight disaster at that ... the explosion pointed to the shuttle’s solid-fuel booster rockets as the likely culprit and criticized NASA managers for not taking ...

Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams have been stuck aboard the space station since June of last year. President Donald Trump has vowed to bring them home.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s call to crash the ISS into the seas in 2027 is a bombshell proposal that, if echoed by NASA, will ...

Former Director of the Alabama NASA Center During the Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion Dies at ... It was the deadliest U.S. space flight disaster at that time. The explosion killed all seven ...

It was the deadliest U.S. space flight disaster at that ... explosion pointed to the shuttle’s solid-fuel booster rockets as the likely culprit and criticized NASA managers for not taking ...