The Museum of Flight marks NASA's Day of Remembrance with special displays honoring the crews of Apollo 1, Challenger, and ...

Preparations for the inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia passed a major milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 29, 1980, with the rollout of the vehicle stack from the Vehicle ...

Exactly 54 years ago today on Jan. 4, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a bill authorizing $5.5 million to develop a ...

It's been 10 years since the Columbia space shuttle accident, and spaceflight safety has come a long way — but has it come far enough? Experts say traveling to space is still a risky business, and ...

The event features presentations by the Appleton teacher and the NTC employee who helped get an Appleton student's experiment ...

Americans and millions of others around the world are mourning the deaths of seven brave astronauts under circumstances few people can even imagine. Though the specific causes of the Columbia tragedy ...

On July 23, 1999, the space shuttle Columbia launched into orbit to deploy the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This space telescope can detect X-ray radiation emitted by things in the universe that are hot ...

That kind of strong leadership and great teamwork are the real safety systems of spaceflight.