On September 17, 1976, NASA revealed the Enterprise—its first space shuttle, named after Star Trek's starship. Discover how this pioneering craft shaped American spaceflight history.

New historical analysis by Dwayne Day in The Space Review provides a rare look into the secretive relationship between the National Reconnaissance Office and the early development of the Space Shuttle ...

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

From Mercury & Apollo Missions to the Space Shuttle Program, Mars Rover Landings, and Artemis II.

If it were up to the crew of STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program, they would have kept flying. Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the Space Shuttle Endeavour during a preview of the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center at the California Science ...

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On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff, killing the seven crew members on board The space shuttle disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of ...

A few months are left until the third mission of the Artemis program, and the second crewed one, will lift off. Not meant to travel to the Moon, but merely to stay in close proximity to Earth to test ...

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