The end of the Space Shuttle program paved the way for a new generation of private launch providers. After two accidents in which all 14 astronauts lost their lives, the Space Shuttle program was ...

(Reuters) - U.S. space agency NASA is ending its shuttle program this summer after two more missions. Shuttle Endeavour is due to launch on Friday on a mission to deliver a high-profile physics ...

The crew of the final NASA Space Shuttle mission, STS-135, reunited at Kennedy Space Center to mark the 15th anniversary of their flight. Astronauts reflected on the nearly flawless performance of ...

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The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

The countdown has begun. The crew is ready. And barring any last-minute hiccups, four astronauts on Wednesday will begin a journey that sends them farther from Earth than any human has gone before.

A pair of NASA space shuttle astronauts who flew into orbit four times each will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Tom Akers and Joe Tanner ...

When Artemis II blasts off for its lunar flyby, its powerful SLS rocket will include some "heritage hardware." The core engines are mostly recycled space shuttle engines, along with some reused ...

The Soviet Buran was built to rival NASA's Space Shuttle and became the only space shuttle to complete an orbital mission ...