Millions of viewers were horrified to witness the Challenger space shuttle explode just seconds after take-off on Jan. 28, 1986, killing all seven crew members on board. Take a look back at how ...

Viewed on a chart, Brevard County's annual aerospace-aviation workforce statistics show "a hockey stick of job growth" ...

Black side down,' Lego style Lego has released another NASA-themed set; this time, a version of the US space agency's Boeing ...

NASA later determined that a piece of insulative foam broke off the space shuttle’s external tank on take-off and struck the heat protection tiles on the left wing. On re-entry, the wing caught ...

The space shuttle concept was a remarkable pivot: Reusable, winged orbiters would take off strapped to rockets, sail through Earth’s orbit and glide to an airplane-esque runway landing.

Explorers trudged the Atlantic Ocean searching for World War II artifacts lost at sea, but they stumbled on something else — a 20-foot-long piece of debris from the Space Shuttle Challenger ...

NASA had never launched a Space Shuttle at such a low temperature ... instructing senior engineer, Bob Lund, to “take off your engineering hat and put on your management hat.” ...

Barring weather delays, the space ... was taken off display Dec. 31. The full-stack configuration is so tall that the new museum will rise 20 stories to make room for it. Once the shuttle full ...

Florida's Space Coast has experienced significant ... "It really used to be an event when the shuttle went off, and people would line the roads and they'd watch the shuttle go up.