On 28 January 1986, a space shuttle launch went wrong. Six astronauts and a teacher, Christa McAuliffe, were killed. In 1984, US President Ronald Reagan had announced that Nasa would search for a ...
NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo.
On Jan. 16, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on its 28th mission, STS-107. NASA had five additional space shuttle ...
Col. Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot and command a NASA space shuttle. Collins commanded the first flight after the 2003 Columbia tragedy, which also experienced a foam-shedding issue.