Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia launched the Chandra X-ray observatory and nearly ended in catastrophe. As the then-ascent flight director John Shannon observed: "Yikes. We don't ...

From a spacecraft’s coolant leak to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, astronauts have gotten stuck in space for a ...

As NASA prepares Space Shuttle Columbia for its 28th mission, excitement and trepidation build amongst the astronauts and ...

Born in Karnal, Haryana, Kalpana was the first Indian woman who went to space. In her memory, the first Indian water ...

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 ...

We have not yet come to take for granted the feat of the Columbia. The papers and the ... To the millions of citizens who watched the space shuttle glide to its flawless landing, the newest ...

Work on the Hubble Space Telescope resumed today as a second pair of spacewalkers from the space shuttle Columbia set about finishing the job of hanging new solar-power arrays on the orbiting ...

Chawla's remarkable journey from a small town in India to the vast expanse of space, soon became a symbol of ambition, ...

As per her wishes, Chawla’s remains were cremated and scattered at a national park in Utah. She was married to Jean-Pierre ...