Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent ...

Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has been opened to the public for tours. The first space shuttle mission, STS-1, launched on April 12, 1981, from Kennedy Space Center, with ...

NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...