Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief. Forty ...

The crews of Space Shuttle Challenger, Columbia and Apollo 1 were honored at Kennedy Space Center during NASA’s Day of ...

Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - It was a cold morning in Florida when the last words heard from any of Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew ...

Weeks before Apollo 11, the Soviet Union tried to save its lunar ambitions with the N1, a super heavy rocket meant to rival Saturn V, and watched it collapse into a massive non-nuclear blast at ...

The 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster cast a shadow over NASA's annual Day of Remembrance event inside the Space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo program.

Families of the astronauts lost in the space shuttle Challenger accident gathered back at the launch site Thursday to mark that tragic day 40 years ago. All seven on board were ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the first around the moon. NASA will return in 2026. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which is slated to launch astronauts around the moon since the Apollo era, was rolled out of the space agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility, ...

A midair explosion of SpaceX’s (SPACE) Starship rocket in January created a serious and largely undisclosed threat to commercial aircraft flying over the Caribbean, forcing multiple pilots to make ...

Benthaus is among six passengers selected to ride on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, scheduled to get off the ground from West Texas on its 37th spaceflight. The passengers of NS-37 would join 80 ...