This marked the only shuttle landing at White Sands. First American woman in space: STS-7 (Challenger) The launch of Challenger on June 18, 1983, marked a pivotal milestone: Sally Ride became the ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle ... had flown on a shuttle. Classrooms across America watched the launch.

Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space ... 6, just two days after launch, the astronauts mated Zarya with Unity, a connecting module built in the United States.

I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced ... explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Approximately a minute, half after launch from here at the ...

It was the second, the Columbia, that had the honor of being the first space shuttle to launch into orbit. It blasted off on April 12, 1981, exactly two decades after Yuri Gagarin became the first ...

Florida's Space Coast hosted a record-shattering 93 orbital rocket launches during 2024. Looking ahead, will this year's total set another new annual record? Following are the latest missions ...

then descend to Earth and land like a space shuttle roughly 45 days later at KSC's Launch and Landing Facility. August 2024 story:Sierra Space's Dream Chaser space plane to use new Kennedy Space ...

28, 1986. The temperature was predicted to be a record low for a Space Shuttle launch. 9:38 a.m. was the launch time and the temperature then was 26 degrees. Space Shuttle Challenger was about to ...

SpaceX launched a new round of Starlink satellites into lower Earth orbit on its 11th launch of 2025, setting it on pace to ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off at 5:05 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 carrying 21 of the company’s Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit. The first-stage ...

Launch Recap: Scroll down to read live updates from the Wednesday, Jan. 29 launch of SpainSat from Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 tonight — and in a rare move, SpaceX did not ...