On January 27, 1967, NASA Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil 'Gus' Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee lost their lives when a cabin ...

A Long Island kid who loved Charlie Brown and the New York Mets would one day repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA's fleet of Space Shuttles could survive challenging solar conditions, but needed a boost to get around on Earth. Here's how a pair of 747s helped.

At 76, Col. Kenneth D. Cameron (Ret.), can look back on a career marked by exemplary service from Vietnam to outer space to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The space shuttle Discovery arrives for its final destination at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center in 2012. The aircraft used to ...

There has been only one mission of the Artemis program to date, an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft that was conducted back in 2022. Judging this solely from this perspective, you could be ...

NASA is preparing to enter a new era of Moon and Mars exploration. Before it does, the agency is overdue for some remodeling of its facilities. Two historic test stands at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight ...

When I was an aerospace engineer working on the NASA Space Shuttle Program, trust was mission-critical. Every bolt, every line of code, every system had to be validated and tested carefully, or the ...

When NASA needed a taxi service for its roughly 100-ton space shuttles, it couldn't exactly call an Uber. The agency needed a plane powerful enough for the job. It dug around, and the two candidates ...