The first time a 17-year-old Eileen Collins drove solo after getting her driver’s license was to follow the ambulance carrying her mother after a suicide attempt. After two decades raising four ...

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Unlike the fictional U.S.S. Enterprise from the Star Trektelevision series, the real-life space shuttle that shared the same name never made it to the final frontier. Fifty years ago, on Sept. 17, ...

Right before a NASA space shuttle exploded into flames and became a blazing fireball in the sky, the pilot said two ominous ...

Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASAs Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...