NASA followed last week's low-key engine test with the test-firing of a solid-fueled booster at Northrop Grumman's rocket ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle may be gone, but Dream Chaser is bringing the concept back - smaller, sleeker, and smarter. Designed for ...

NASA’s latest hot-fire of RS-25 engine No. 20001 roared for the full 500-second launch profile, proving it can blast the ...

NASA and Northrop Grumman successfully tested the most powerful segmented solid rocket motor ever created at Promontory Point on Thursday. It will eventually power missions to the moon and beyond.

The new booster is is scheduled to launch on the ninth Artemis lunar mission in the 2030s — but there's a chance that it will ...

During his work on several historic missions, Casani rose through a series of technical and management positions, making an ...

It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, ... NASA was preparing to launch the Challenger on its 10th flight, dubbed the STS-51L mission.

[INTERACTIVE: The NASA astronauts and employees who died in service to U.S. space exploration] The Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L mission was expected to deploy a communications satellite and ...

NASA's Challenger shuttle exploded 73 seconds after lifting off on Jan. 28, 1986, from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The space shuttle was on its 10th mission and was carrying seven ...

Space shuttle Challenger exploded 39 years ago. Doyle Rice Dinah Voyles Pulver. ... According to NASA, the shuttle was lost about 15 minutes before it was set to touch down at Kennedy Space Center.

At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe sat with her six fellow astronauts ahead of the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger from Kennedy Space Cente… ...