While the main purpose of the STS-116 space shuttle mission is to get on with building the space station, the astronauts also will do an assortment of smaller experiments and hardware tests during ...

But just 73 seconds after blast-off, the shuttle burst into flames, leaving a cloud of smoke in the sky before it plummeted ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

"We landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, a few miles away from where I picked strawberries as a kid," Hernandez ...

Space Shuttle Columbia was launched from Kennedy ... Columbia's next mission would be STS-109 to service the Hubble Space Telescope. As for the issues seen during the launch, NASA noted that ...

Minnesota teen’s space experiment flew aboard Columbia in 1982, revealing how bugs react to weightlessness during shuttle ...

Early associations with the Black Knight satellite theory stem from peculiar radio signals, but it was images captured during the STS-88 space shuttle mission in 1998 that sparked widespread ...