After working to improve the booster design and creating new management practices to improve safety, NASA relaunched shuttle flights on Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center.

NASA is extremely unlikely to build a new space shuttle to replace Columbia, leaving the space agency with the three remaining orbiters as its entire fleet for the foreseeable future. The next ...

“In addition to rededicating the trees that were planted in ‘03, we’re going to dedicate two new trees for the ... to preserve the legacy of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its STS-107 ...

February 18th has been a significant date throughout history, marking a variety of events that have shaped the world. In a ...

The explosion led to the grounding of the Space Shuttle fleet for nearly three years, during which various safety measures, solid rocket booster redesign and a new policy on management decision ...

Tuesday marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy.The shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff on Jan. 28, 1986.New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe was one of the ...

The man who led a NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion has died. William Ray Lucas was 102.

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...

NASA's fallen astronauts: a photo memorial — New NASA video honors fallen astronauts of Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia — Space shuttle Columbia: NASA's first shuttle in space NASA holds its ...