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 ...

s Solid Rocket Booster is scheduled to fire for 123.1 seconds Thursday, Nov. 1, at a Utah test facility. Results from the test – conducted at the Promontory, Utah, facilities of ATK Thiokol Propulsion ...

McClelland claims he is a retired NASA spacecraft operator (ScO) who worked with NASA’s Shuttle Fleet at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida from 1958 to 1992. He was involved in hundreds of NASA ...

(CNN) — Upon its inception, NASA’s space shuttle program promised to usher in a new era of exploration, keeping astronauts space-bound with a reusable and relatively cheap ride into orbit. It was a ...

Fifteen years after its retirement, the Space Shuttle Endeavour is set to dazzle museum spectators like never before. When the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center opens at Los Angeles’ California ...

One of the most eye-catching and difficult aspects of the California Science Center’s $400-million Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center project to create a space shuttle exhibit took place Jan. 29.