Leroy Chiao flew to space four times on the Space Shuttle. You might think that the most likely place for a NASA astronaut to see an unidentified flying object would be while orbiting Earth or ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

The milestones, heartbreaks, and discoveries that shaped NASA's 30-year shuttle program. NASA's storied space shuttle program experienced extraordinary triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies during ...

It was a cloudy Saturday morning on the Space Coast when 12-year-old Tal Ramon anxiously waited with his family for the ...

Astronaut Memorial Ceremony took place Sunday to honor the 17 NASA crew members lost in the Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia ...

Kraft recalls laying bare the budget jeopardy faced by the shuttle. “We were totally incapable of meeting any sort of flight ...

Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are ... killing seven more crew members. The shuttle would continue flying until 2011, but its lifetime had laid bare the continuing dangers of crewed ...

After nearly a decade of brand-new Star Wars movies and shows under Disney, which are the coolest new starships flying across ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...