The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane (right, on runway) approaches Inspiration, a full-size space shuttle mockup, shortly after touching down at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility ...

Lego has unveiled the Space Shuttle Discovery set, complete with a model of the groundbreaking Hubble Space Telescope that Discovery deployed in 1990. Skip to main content. Menu ...

On this day in 1986, the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger exploded over Cape Canaveral, Florida. The explosion occurred 73 seconds after takeoff, to the horror of millions of Americans watching.

It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, exploding in mere minutes.The disaster — which claimed the lives of ...

Conspiracy theory claims the seven astronauts supposedly killed in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion are quietly living out their lives in the U.S.

The space shuttle program was marked by triumphs and failures, including the 2003 Columbia disaster. The tragedies left a lasting mark on the perception of risks in space.

The 122-foot-long-by-35-foot-tall space shuttle mockup, named the “Inspiration,” was transported via big rig in multiple parts 0.3 miles along Bellflower Boulevard from a city maintenance yard ...

A flower arrangement with a model of Space Shuttle Challenger sits on a railing Friday, January 28, 2011 that was placed in front of the space mirror at Kennedy Space Center's Visitor Complex.

After sitting exposed to the elements outside the U.S. Space & Rocket Center for more than 30 years, the full-scale model of the space shuttle needs a lot of work. Just how much work is the ...

History Channel divers find piece of exploded space shuttle Challenger, Nasa says. Divers searching for the wreckage of a 1940s era airplane off the coast of Florida found instead a segment of the ...

On April 4, 1983, the second space shuttle to be ever built, the Challenger, was launched for the first time as part of the STS-6 mission. Three years and nine missions later, on January 28, 1986 ...

Jenkins' first take on space shuttle history, written in 1988, addressed the first 25 missions. He then expanded on that 72-page "datagraph" in three subsequent hardcover books that covered the ...