The man who led a NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion has died. William Ray Lucas was 102.

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Trump's anti-DEI agenda could have disastrous consequences for NASA's operations on board the International Space Station.

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In the early morning hours on an otherwise ordinary Thursday last September, at nearly 460 miles above Earth, Jared Isaacman ...

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“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

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Starliner astronaut Sunita Williams says she and crewmate Butch Wilmore have not been "abandoned" in space, as NASA considers ...