The teacher, who beat out 11,00 applicants to be the first "average citizen" sent to space, opened up to PEOPLE 40 years ago ...

Wikimedia Commons/NASA The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster On a freezing January morning in 1986, NASA ignored urgent ...

Here’s a look at NASA’s Space Shuttle Program which ended in 2011 after 135 missions. Facts The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a ...

On May 27, the ninth test lifted off at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. While the vehicle successfully reached the ...

Astronauts sidelined for the past year by Boeing’s Starliner trouble blasted off to the International Space Station on Friday ...

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

Politics is placing people’s safety in jeopardy.” Those were the sobering words of 287 present and former NASA workers, among ...

In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House and seven talented astronauts were wrangled into an orbital battle over ...

That’s exactly what awaits at the American Space Museum & Walk of Fame in Titusville, Florida – a cosmic treasure chest that somehow flies under the radar of most Florida bucket lists.

NASA scientists say pending cuts to the space agency could compromise mission safety and pave the way for another tragedy ...

NASA employees and allies protested sweeping science cuts they say are gutting the agency from within. As Congress pushes ...

The Irish National Opera has described “Mars” as “about space colonization, reactionary futurism, pronatalism, the madness of ...