After two weather postponements during the weekend, skies cleared at the Kennedy Space Center and allowed NASA to successfully launch Discovery on just the second shuttle flight since the destruction ...
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 space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from its seaside Florida launch pad on Thursday to deliver a $1.9-billion European science laboratory to the International Space Station. Defying a dismal ...
The space shuttle Discovery lit up the night sky to begin a 12-day journey to the International Space Station (ISS) on its second try. It lurched off the launch pad at 2047 EST (0147 GMT on Sunday).
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Discovery, the world’s most traveled spaceship, thundered into orbit for the final time Thursday, heading toward the International Space Station on a journey ...
Fifteen years after its retirement, the Space Shuttle Endeavour is set to dazzle museum spectators like never before. When the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center opens at Los Angeles’ California ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The final four shuttle astronauts returned to Kennedy Space Center this past weekend and addressed a crowd underneath their ride, ...