But just 73 seconds after blast-off, the shuttle burst into flames, leaving a cloud of smoke in the sky before it plummeted ...

For a brief period in the 1980s, astronauts went untethered outside their space capsule, flying with jet packs. The photos are amazing -- and terrifying.

Andrew 'Andy' Freed is most well-known for being a Purdue professor, teaching notable classes taken by a large majority of ...

It was a cloudy Saturday morning on the Space Coast when 12-year-old Tal Ramon anxiously waited with his family for the return of his father Ilan on Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003. Ilan and his six ...

On April 14, Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket took an all-female crew of celebrity astronauts to outer space, and in the ...

One moment occurred in 1984 when NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first human to spacewalk or float free from any earthly anchor when he stepped out of the space shuttle Challenger and ...

but ever since she and the crew from the Space shuttle Challenger touched down, Sally Ride has been cruising on *** different kind of high. This morning, the California native received ...

OREGON, Ohio — The Challenger Learning Center of Lake Erie West's Heather Townley said she was happy to hear six women were headed into space for a historic event during Monday's Blue Origin ...

HOUSTON — Texas U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on Thursday filed new legislation aimed at bringing the Space Shuttle ...