Looking for ways to inspire children to care about space exploration, NASA decided to fly an icon to fly into orbit: Big Bird would be an astronaut. But, as relayed in the new documentary I Am Big ...

Big Bird almost had a seat on the doomed Challenger space shuttle which exploded just seconds after take-off in 1986, killing seven people onboard, a documentary on the beloved “Sesame Street ...

NASA has confirmed reports that space officials discussed putting Big Bird on the space shuttle Challenger, before it was lost along with its entire crew in an explosion in 1986. But the space ...