Steve Hawley, who flew five Space Shuttle missions, and Krista Schaffer, a first-grade teacher at Christa McAuliffe Elementary in Lenexa reflect on the 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster.
Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...
On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, killing all seven astronauts aboard … ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most ...
The shuttle Discovery — NASA's most-flown space plane — will take one last flight this week, but will never leave the planet again. The shuttle's final mission is a piggyback ride atop a jumbo jet so ...
At present, NASA plans to phase out the shuttle fleet Discovery, Endeavour and Atlantis by 2010. By that time, agency officials hope, shuttle crews will have finished building the space station. NASA ...
Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, both Republicans of Texas, want the space shuttle Discovery to be moved to Space Center Houston from its current location at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near ...