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 ...

Seven American spacefarers were killed in a tragic event 40 years ago today that has become widely known as the Challenger ...

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded. The most serious accident in manned spaceflight to date shocked the USA and the whole world.