CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour was due to blast off from Florida on Wednesday on its first mission in nearly five years, carrying a former teacher who trained ...

Jan. 28, 1986, 7 spacefarers were killed when shuttle Challenger exploded midair after launching from Kennedy Space Center in ...

Click to open image viewer. NASA presented this flag, mission patch, and certificate to the Museum as mementos of the historic first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1 in 1981. Commander John Young and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The fretting about Discovery’s liftoff focused on foam insulation covering its fuel tank. But in the end, poor weather scotched Saturday’s much-anticipated space shuttle launch ...