STS-8, saw Guion Bluford become the first African-American in space, launching aboard Challenger on Aug. 30, 1983. The mission also marked the shuttle program's first night launch and landing and ...

After another launch scrub for weather, Space Shuttle mission STS-93 lifted off from the Kennedy ... there kind of out of the blue.” The next night, there was a seven-minute extension of the ...

ready to launch at short notice on an ambitious rescue mission. This rescue mission was called STS-400. When the Space Shuttle fleet returned to action after the loss of Columbia, major ...

The STS-63 mission, more popularly dubbed as the near-Mir mission, was a successful mission that spanned from February 3-11, ...

I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced ... delays with the Columbia shuttle and STS-61C mission just miles away at Launch Pad 39A.

The Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum ‘Remembering Columbia’ Museum in Hemphill works to preserve the legacy of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its STS-107 crew. As part of the 20th annual ...

Capping years of anticipation, Blue Origin's hulking New Glenn two-stage rocket may launch on its maiden ... astronauts launched aboard Space Shuttle Columbia on STS 61C. Shuttle flights had ...

Nelson and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy left the agency on Monday (Jan. 20), the day that Donald Trump began his ...

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 ...