Why did a $72 million mission to study water on the moon fail so soon after launch? A new NASA report has the answer.

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.

The SpaceX Crew-12 mission, launching from Florida, restored a full crew to the International Space Station after an unprecedented medical evacuation.

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 ...

On Thursday NASA leadership outlined how 2024’s glitch-plagued Boeing Starliner mission jeopardized astronaut welfare and the ...

Discovery Dust-Up It was a busy January in the battle over the proposed relocation of the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in ...

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Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven astronauts were lost after the shuttle broke apart during reentry. Columbia was just 16 minutes from landing at the Kennedy Space Center, when Mission ...

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 ...

On April 24, 1990, humanity launched a scientific revolution. I mean “launched” literally: on that date the space shuttle Discovery roared into the sky with the Hubble Space Telescope nestled in its ...

KSHB 41 reporter Tod Palmer covers sports business and eastern Jackson County. Share your story idea with Tod. Joyous anticipation. That’s probably the best way to describe the feeling 40 years ago, ...