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, ...

After the Challenger explosion in 1986, he was part of the investigation team that helped determine the cause of the disaster. One of the rockets sent up into space by Celestis. (Photo courtesy of ...

On June 20, 1983, the crew of the space shuttle Challenger – including America's first space woman Sally Ride -- deployed an ...

The destruction of the Challenger space shuttle was violent and devastating. Yet somehow, a single piece of athletic ...

BBC World Service and BBC Sounds have announced their multi-award winning podcast 13 Minutes To The Moon is to return with a ...

A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill," a major economic and policy package ...

Japan’s Honda is giving American SpaceX new competition in the reusable rocket field with its recent successful test on June ...

Every once in a while, an extraordinary individual pops back into the public conscience that we haven’t heard from in years, ...

From the world watching in horror as the Challenger space shuttle exploded to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that upended ...

There are about three Space Shuttle orbiters currently in operation - Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, which are all ...

Marc Garneau, Canada's first astronaut, passed away this week at the age of 76. Quirks and Quarks host Bob McDonald reflects on their decades-long friendship.