William Ray Lucas led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

And the agency announced last August that it was asking SpaceX to bring Williams and Wilmore home aboard the SpaceX Crew-9 capsule. That vehicle is currently docked with the space station ...

would not be back home until late March at the earliest after Crew-10 arrived at the space station. Typically one NASA crew stays on the space station until another arrives. "Fabrication ...

29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center. Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another shuttle and its crew were lost in the skies above America: The shuttle Columbia ...

President Trump blamed the Biden administration Tuesday for "abandoning" two astronauts who have been stuck aboard the International Space Station in the wake of problems last summer with their ...