The car is sponsored by the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission as part of the state’s celebration of 250 years of American independence. The speed test will be Monday at Cape ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts hitched a giant chest of drawers to the international space station on Monday that contained a brand-new freezer, a sleeping compartment and a treadmill bearing a TV ...

The Apollo lunar landing module's computer only had about 4 kilobytes of RAM. A single typical iPhone photo is a few megabytes in size, over 1,000 times larger than the Apollo lunar landing module's ...

Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven astronauts were lost after the shuttle broke apart during reentry. Columbia was just 16 minutes from landing at the Kennedy Space Center, when Mission ...

A NASA aircraft had to make a "gear-up landing" in Houston on Tuesday due to a mechanical problem, NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens noted in a post on X. "Today, a mechanical issue with one of NASA’s ...

It's now been 40 years since New Hampshire school teacher Christa McAuliffe died when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. All seven on board were killed when Challenger broke apart following ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, the world watched in horror as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven ...

Forty years ago, the NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all 7 crew members. Among the seven crew members were 5 NASA astronauts, as well as a payload specialist ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—NASA says the two-person flight crew of a vintage WB-57F high-altitude research aircraft were unharmed after the aircraft made a gear-up landing at Ellington Field, Texas, on Jan 27.

It's unclear what the mechanical issue may have been, but NASA is investigating the incident. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

On this day 40 years ago, America tragically lost 7 brilliant, visionary, and courageous titans of space exploration aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. On this solemn anniversary, we acknowledge ...