(WASHINGTON) – Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton and NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe today announced the naming of Columbia Point, a 13,980-foot mountain peak in Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains, ...
The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. The Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) would need to be cut into ...
The CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight” uncovers the events that ultimately led to disaster. The four-part documentary concludes at 9 p.m. ET/PT Sunday. Upon its inception, ...
View A superb and spectacular view of the interior of the payload bay of the space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-43) in this scene, in reverse over the southern two-thirds of the Florida peninsula ...
Editor's note: This story contains discussion of astronaut fatalities and dangerous moments in human spaceflight. It was 40 years ago today (Jan. 28) that the space shuttle Challenger blasted off on ...
Should the city of Houston, which proudly bills itself as “Space City,” have a prized Space Shuttle orbiter on public display? More than a decade ago, arguably, the answer was yes. After all, the ...