Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia launched the Chandra X-ray observatory and nearly ended in catastrophe. As the then-ascent flight director John Shannon observed: "Yikes. We don't ...

As NASA prepares Space Shuttle Columbia for its 28th mission, excitement and trepidation build amongst the astronauts and ...

The replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts launched to the ISS on Friday night, paving the way for the pair's return.

That remained true for the Gemini and Apollo programs and the eventual development of the space shuttle ... exploded seconds after launch in 1986, and Columbia exploded shortly after re-entering ...

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven ... He will return to Earth during the next station shuttle mission, STS-127, targeted to launch in June 2009. Former science teachers Acaba and Arnold ...