The milestones, heartbreaks, and discoveries that shaped NASA's 30-year shuttle program. NASA's storied space shuttle program experienced extraordinary triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies during ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11.

O-ring erosion on Discovery would have disastrous effects a year later It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which engineers ...

Discovery first flew in August 1984, completed 39 trips into space, and remains NASA's oldest surviving shuttle. Most famously, it delivered the Hubble telescope into space and returned Mercury ...

You’d think space would be the one place where computer users would be spared the travails of printing, but as [Ken Shirriff] outlines, there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the ...

It was so cold that morning that Thompson said she stayed inside ... NASA relaunched shuttle flights on Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center. Seventeen years after ...