The Artemis II mission around the moon will be a brilliant last hurrah for several space shuttle engines and booster rocket parts that first flew as far back as 1982.

Forty years ago, on , NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia, attached to an external tank and twin solid rocket boosters, lifted off ...

Forty years ago today, Americans were stunned, shocked and saddened when the Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on a cold, cloudless day in Florida. A booster leak ignited the ...

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the... 40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SpaceX padded the record for its most-flown rocket booster late Saturday with its 33rd trip to space. A Falcon 9 flying 28 ...

Bob Ebeling was anxious and angry as he drove to work on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. He kept thinking about the space shuttle Challenger, cradled on a Florida launchpad 2,000 miles away. Ebeling ...