A reflection on the Jan. 12, 1986, launch of Space Shuttle Columbia’s STS-61-C mission, published on the Challenger ...

June 2002: Ask John Charles, STS-107 mission scientist in NASA’s Office of Biological and Physical Research (OBPR), for an early memory of space exploration, and he recalls his disappointment when he ...

HOUSTON – The astronauts of space shuttle Discovery’s STS-120 mission will relive their flight for the public, friends and coworkers in a special post-flight presentation at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10 ...

NASA's space shuttle Challenger completed 10 missions before it broke apart during a launch in 1986, killing seven astronauts ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - It’s now been 40 years since the maiden flight of space shuttle Columbia, the first flight of a reusable spacecraft and the inaugural mission of the 30-year space shuttle ...

MISSION: STS-130 International Space Station assembly flight 20 (20A), the 130th launch of the space shuttle program and the 32nd to the ISS. ORBITER: Endeavour (OV-105), making its 24th flight.

With Commander Dominic Gorie and Pilot Gregory H. Johnson at the controls, space shuttle Endeavour glided to a picture perfect landing at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The STS-123 crew began its mission ...

On April 12, 1981, astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen blasted off on the maiden voyage of the space shuttle program inside the orbiter Columbia. It was the first of 135 shuttle launches. The ...

MISSION: STS-131 International Space Station Assembly Flight 19A, the 131st launch of the space shuttle program and the 33rd to the ISS. ORBITER: Discovery (OV-103), making its 38th flight. Discovery ...