The Texas-based company Celestis Inc.’s inaugural Perseverance Flight is scheduled to launch around 5:30 p.m. Sunday from ...

You can watch the launch live on SpaceX 's website or its X profile. The webcast will begin 15 minutes prior to liftoff.

Black-and-white photographs shared by some social media users are said to show Laika, a 13-pound stray from Moscow who became the first dog in space after being launched into low orbit aboard ...

The Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L mission was expected to deploy a communications satellite and study Halley’s Comet. McAuliffe was part of the Teacher in Space Project, which was meant to ...

The space shuttle program was marked by triumphs and failures, including the 2003 Columbia disaster. The tragedies left a lasting mark on the perception of risks in space.

The Space Shuttle program proved that re-useable space planes aren't exactly the fool-proof best way to put humans and technology into space, and it was planned to be since the dog days of the ...

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded. I has a massive impact on the national psyche, and on the future of NASA missions. Maybe you remember it, maybe it was before your time.

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 ...

A dog's ashes were among the remains sent into space this weekend as part of a memorial mission honouring loved ones by ...

The space shuttle Endeavour began the first part of its journey to its final resting place Thursday, an effort more than a decade in the making after arriving at the California Science Center ...

There were high hopes for launching the space shuttle Discovery from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1983, including a promotional tour where the spacecraft flew into the Central Coast base.

The final journey for the last space shuttle ever built is complete. Set against the black backdrop of the night sky, a crane hoisted a white shrink-wrapped Endeavour 200 feet overhead before ...