This cover image released by Avid Reader shows "Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space" by Adam Higginbotham Avid Reader via AP ...

Weaving together an incredibly detailed and compelling narrative of NASA's tragic space shuttle Challenger disaster, a new non-fiction account of the historic event arrives today from Adam ...

Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino shares important life lessons from his journey to joining the space program and achieving what, at times, felt like an impossible dream. When you purchase through ...

When the Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Fla., for its April 12, 1981 maiden voyage, it ushered in a new and exciting age of space travel and ...

A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. The ...

HEMPHILL, Texas (KTRE) - It’s been 22 years since space shuttle Columbia broke apart across the skies of East Texas. Many gathered at the Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum in Hemphill to remember the ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...