And no tragedy is more indelible than the space shuttle Challenger disaster ... Higginbotham recalls a moment when Challenger astronaut Judy Resnik completed her will leading up to the launch ...

Most of us know Bruce McCandless II by the famous photograph taken by fellow astronaut ... but did not travel to space until 1984, when he flew aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

Houston plaintiffs lawyer Ronald "Ronny" Krist won the suit that established crashworthiness in Texas, and represented the ...

The park in southeast Harris County was dedicated in 1986 to honor seven NASA astronauts who died in the explosion of the ...

A 1968 mechanical engineering graduate of Lehigh, he joined NASA as part of its elite "Group 8" astronaut class and flew aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1984. During that mission ...

But Hubble was designed to be serviced in orbit, and astronauts did just that during a space shuttle mission in December 1993. They fixed the mirror problem, giving Hubble the far-reaching 20/20 ...

Perhaps no one brought that to the fore more than former astronaut Lisa Nowak — but that's a 900-mile story for another time. The shuttle and International Space Station have toilets ...

Watch the trailer for 'Sally,' the National Geographic documentary about astronaut Sally Ride, directed by Cristina Costantini.

She was an astronaut, an International Space Station alum, and an aquanaut before she turned 40. It all happened because she ...

Female astronauts have fewer opportunities to ... launching into low-Earth orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. "My desire was to make a contribution to the program," Bluford said in a ...

Then, due to the loss of Challenger in January 1986 and the ensuing pause of the space ... EVAs in shuttle history. During those extended stints navigating Hubble's handrails, NASA astronauts ...