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 ...

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 ...

a veteran of three space shuttle flights, were pulled from the mission. This is Hague’s third launch, although his first was an aborted Soyuz mission. This is Gorbunov’s first spaceflight.

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

Florida preschoolers are eligible to receive free admission to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex for the rest of 2025.

Bill Nelson and six additional astronauts launched aboard Space Shuttle Columbia on STS 61C. Shuttle flights had become fairly routine at this point. But this mission would be the last successful ...

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 ...

McAuliffe taught that class, too. Bleier was a sixth-grader when she watched the space shuttle launch on television. She recalled how devastating it was. "I don't want to watch the shuttle blow up ...

McAuliffe taught that class, too. Bleier was a sixth-grader when she watched the space shuttle launch on television. She recalled how devastating it was. "I don't want to watch the shuttle blow up ...