Exploration has never been a safe occupation. For every significant discovery, there has been sacrifice by those seeking out ...

While Mr. Krikalev was up there, the Soviet Union disbanded ... While they were in space, a NASA space shuttle disintegrated as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and killed all seven astronauts ...

Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev spent twice as much time in space than his team had planned after his country stopped ...

High school social studies teacher Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was selected from a pool of 10,000 applicants. With six ...

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

Given the pressures of the space race against the Soviet Union, there was no question that ... and the eventual development of the space shuttle, a reusable spacecraft that could glide to a ...

A former astronaut, Bowersox saw his own space station mission abruptly prolonged. He was up there with Don Pettit, who’s currently aboard the orbiting lab, when shuttle Columbia broke apart during ...

When that fear recedes, NASA tends to decline, drifting without an obvious purpose—for instance, canceling the Space Shuttle program after the fall of the Soviet Union. That outer space has ...