War Thunder devs had to apologize over the weekend after players quickly noticed that a newly added loading screen featured ...

Exploration has never been a safe occupation. For every significant discovery, there has been sacrifice by those seeking out new knowledge.

The unifying message of Monday's all-woman rocket flight is that, for now, cold space belongs to the hot and rich.

Just 73 seconds after launch, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded ... of learning from tragic events to prevent future disasters. Each year, people across the world honor the memory of the ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...

there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the story behind them is fascinating. The push for printers in space came from the combined forces of NASA’s love for checklists and the need ...

How do you prepare the most storied space shuttle for a second life on Earth? Discovery, which set a record by flying 39 missions, cumulatively spent 365 days in space and traveled 148,221,675 miles.

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IN 1981, DEVELOPMENT OF INSULATING TILES CONTRIBUTED TO DELAYS IN THE FIRST SHUTTLE LAUNCH ... are particularly vulnerable to strikes from space debris. About 30 to 100 tiles are replaced before ...

STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

back to the top- Spacesuits for the space shuttle era are pressurized at 4.3 pounds per square inch (psi), but because the gas in the suit is 100 percent oxygen instead of 20 percent, the person ...