NASA's Space Shuttle program was a great idea in concept, but flawed execution led to its demise. Here are the problems it ...

Just before my final, 2001 shuttle mission to help build the International Space Station, I asked the NASA chief of human spaceflight when he thought we’d return to the moon. "Oh, probably not until ...

Tom Akers and Joe Tanner flew into orbit four times each during NASA's space shuttle era. The induction ceremony will take place on May 16, 2026, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Tanner ...

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 ...

Commander Randy Bresnik and three others will attempt to dock with two different lunar landers in Earth orbit, paving the way for a future moon landing.

Wake-up calls date back to the Gemini program in the 1960s, when mission controllers began using music to greet crews at the ...