The shuttle exploded on Jan. 28, 1986, during liftoff of mission STS-51L, killing all seven astronauts on board. The technical cause was traced to an external booster rocket seal failing ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ... Atlantis had been in the OPF since its most recent voyage – the STS-132 mission in May 2010. To get to the VAB, Atlantis travelled ...

The STS-V, like this 2007 that's for sale on Cars & Bids, on the other hand, has been largely forgotten, and that means you can get a heck of a deal on one of the best sleepers built in the last ...

But STS-1 was a remarkable first flight nonetheless. Here’s a few things you might not know about the pioneering space shuttle mission. When the shuttle’s two pencil-shaped solid rocket ...

Reusable Solid Rocket Boosters After STS-5 (November 1982), the casing was made .002 to .004 inch thinner, reducing the weight of each booster by 4,000 pounds. After STS-7 (June 1983), engineers ...

A month before STS-1, as Columbia sat on Pad 39A at the ... astride a fuel-filled External Tank and flanked by two Solid Rocket Boosters — was danger on steroids. With no meaningful crew escape ...

Worse, there is no way to check except during a countdown when liquid hydrogen starts flowing into the rocket. After the first scrub of the STS-127 mission, the Endeavour launch was rescheduled ...