With the Galaxy Explorer, says Psiaki ... was abandoned after they found themselves essentially building another Space Shuttle Discovery, and they threw out modernized designs for the spacemen ...

Upon its inception, NASA’s space shuttle program promised to usher in a new era of exploration, keeping astronauts space-bound with a reusable and relatively cheap ride into orbit. It was a ...

"The significance of this large section of Challenger's structure was readily apparent,” said underwater explorer Mike Barnette ... RELATED: Photos: Space shuttle Challenger anniversary The ...

Space Shuttle Challenger was about to lift off on ... On this day 390 years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama. In his lifetime the great frontiers ...

The seven astronauts were killed when the shuttle broke apart on Jan. 28, 1986. (NASA) KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – On a cold Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off from a ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

R: The Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise inside of Marshall Space Flight Center's Dynamic Test Stand for Mated Vertical Ground Vibration tests (MVGVT). Images: NASA Get the Popular Science daily ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...