CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A tech billionaire who bought a series of spaceflights from Elon Musk’s SpaceX and conducted the ...

Thirty years ago on January 28, seven astronauts were killed when the Challenger space ... chance. NASA released McAuliffe's lesson notes and practice videos several years after the shuttle ...

This claim was, in fact, true. McCandless was, indeed, the first astronaut to perform an untethered spacewalk on Feb. 7, 1984 ...

The tech CEO is a close collaborator with Elon Musk, and took part in the world’s first commercial spacewalk with SpaceX.

She didn’t just fly to space—she soared past every barrier. Learn how Eileen Collins became NASA’s first female pilot and ...

Billionaire Jared Isaacman, who led the first private spacewalk, has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to head ...

SpaceX recently hit some notable milestones with its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, and even in the full context of history, the ...

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy has launched 11 times, all successfully, and is based on the Falcon 9 rocket rated to ferry people into ...

Challenger Center, a leading nonprofit STEM education organization, announced today that its Board of Directors has selected ...

In 1986, the Nasa space shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after launch killing all seven crew members. In 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over ...

Lieutenant General Scobee was one of seven astronauts on NASA's space shuttle Challenger that lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida in January 1986. But 73 seconds into flight, the spacecraft ...