Pad 39A is well known for crewed launches, yet that chapter is over for the foreseeable future as SpaceX prepares for ...
When a spacecraft comes home without people on board, it is not a cinematic failure but a carefully choreographed engineering choice. From military spaceplanes to commercial capsules, uncrewed returns ...
SpaceX launched 26 missions from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-A in 2025, including four human spaceflight missions. That era is coming to an end. A massive crane was put in place this week ...
On Feb. 1, 2003, NASA was once again dealing with tragedy when Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven astronauts were ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After 30 years of spaceflight, NASA's iconic space shuttles will fly no more. The space agency's storied shuttle program ended today (July 21) when the shuttle Atlantis soared ...
NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...
Seven astronauts lost their lives during the Challenger space shuttle disaster on Jan. 28, 1986. Four decades later, human ...
NASA's space shuttle Challenger completed 10 missions before it broke apart during a launch in 1986, killing seven astronauts ...
-America’s X-37B space plane looks like a scaled-down shuttle, but it has become one of the most consequential military programs of the post-Cold War era. -Born as a NASA technology demonstrator and ...
Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent ...
Seven American spacefarers were killed in a tragic event 40 years ago today that has become widely known as the Challenger disaster.