Fifteen years ago today, the roar of engines and a pillar of fire lit up the Florida sky as Space Shuttle Discovery began its final journey into space.

It is not every day that I can sit down and talk with a former NASA astronaut and member of the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame, but that is exactly what happened when I recently met and talked ...

SpaceX padded the record for its most-flown rocket booster late Saturday with its 33rd trip to space. A Falcon 9 flying 28 Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space ...

A plan to relocate Space Shuttle Discovery is gaining momentum, but critics warn it could be unnecessarily expensive, ...

In 1985, Ellison Onizuka became the first Hawaii-born astronaut to fly into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Onizuka, a Hawaii Island native, died a year later with the crew of the Challenger ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The space shuttle Challenger lifted off on January 28, 1986. An explosion 73 seconds after liftoff claimed the lives of the crew. ...

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David Klaus, a retired University of Colorado Boulder professor, was a 23-year-old launch control engineer at NASA when the Challenger spacecraft exploded shortly after liftoff in 1986. When his ...

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Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Brian Babin (R-Texas) confer during a markup of a NASA authorization bill Feb. 4. Credit: X @sciencedems WASHINGTON — The House Science Committee ...

From strawberries and chocolate to Indiafest and Poocharella, we've rounded up the best springtime festivals on the Space ...