When Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003, investigators later examined whether a desperate rescue mission using Shuttle Atlantis could have saved the seven astronauts. The analysis revealed a ...

This week's letter to the editor of the Herald Times Reporter draws parallels between failures in the Challenger explosion and the Epstein affair.

In 1985, Ellison Onizuka became the first Hawaii-born astronaut to fly into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Onizuka, a Hawaii Island native, died a year later with the crew of the Challenger ...

If all had gone according to plan, four astronauts might have been returning just this week from a history-making, 10-day slingshot trip around the moon.

“Ad astra per aspera” is an ancient Latin phrase meaning “to the stars through hardships.” Forty years ago, the harrowing hardships of questing for the stars were seen in cold Florida skies when the ...

(CNN) - Wednesday marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle explosion. It was a moment of collective grief on Jan. 28, 1986, when the space shuttle exploded during a live broadcast.