It’s been 40 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. It was a day the nation slowly realized something had ...

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...

Ohio native Judith Resnik was a mission specialist on the doomed Space Shuttle Challenger when it exploded shortly after ...

Forty years ago, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff. Seven astronauts were killed, including ...

Christa McAuliffe was one of New Hampshire’s two candidates for the Teacher in Space program that gave her a spot on the ...

NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo.

"I would say this is the most important human spaceflight mission for NASA in more than a half century," NASA administrator ...

There isn't much money in getting stuck in space, as Williams only received an extra $1,430 for her 9-month extended work ...

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.

NASA held its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday to honor those who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration.

Twenty-five names are carved into the black mirror-finished granite: the Challenger seven, the seven who perished in the ...