But just 73 seconds after blast-off, the shuttle burst into flames, leaving a cloud of smoke in the sky before it plummeted ...

For a brief period in the 1980s, astronauts went untethered outside their space capsule, flying with jet packs. The photos ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who were stuck in space for more than nine months, took questions after ...

Dr. Mae Jemison, the first woman of color in space, shares wisdom and encouragement with "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King ...

One moment occurred in 1984 when NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first human to spacewalk or float free from any earthly anchor when he stepped out of the space shuttle Challenger and ...

"We landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, a few miles away from where I picked strawberries as a kid," Hernandez ...

High school social studies teacher Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was selected from a pool of 10,000 applicants. With six ...

Set to open on January 28, 2026 — the 40th anniversary of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster — the ... will also honor the legacy of the seven astronauts lost in the Challenger disaster.

After nine months in space, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore finally came back down to Earth on Tuesday. Their return from the International Space Station marks a close to a trip ...