NASA honored its fallen space explorers during its annual "Day of Remembrance" on Thursday (Jan. 23). The agency held events at a number of its facilities around the nation, including Kennedy Space ...

NASA holds a Day of Remembrance to pay respect to the lives lost while working to further the understanding of space. This includes the crews of Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia.

The Apollo I and space shuttle Challenger and Columbia astronauts were remembered during an annual ceremony at Kennedy Space ...

An annual memorial was held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Every fourth Thursday in January, NASA remembers fallen astronauts.

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Jan. 12—NORTH DAKOTA — A federal lawsuit challenging the racial requirements of the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program was recently dismissed due to what an attorney for ...

McNair made it clear that making the playoffs remains a key goal for the franchise. “I would say our goals haven’t changed,” McNair said. “We want to get to the playoffs.

R: The Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise inside of Marshall Space Flight Center's Dynamic Test Stand for Mated Vertical Ground Vibration tests (MVGVT). Images: NASA These are the voyages of the space ...

Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space shuttle program's greatest tragedy. Congress authorized NASA to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was lost ...

On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle program. “I have decided today that the United States should proceed at ...

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 ...

Top left: Sunset at the Rubin Observatory on Chile's Cerro Pachón (photo: Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory); Right: ESA’s Space Rider will remain in orbit for six months to ...