"The NASA Life of Ethel Lee" is currently on display at the Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey. It's a Women's History ...

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

NASA astronaut Susan Kilrain will be making her first interactive appearance at a UK event when she talks about her career.

The parts for a 1972 full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city block closer to being reassembled and restored for display. The City of Downey, California began relocating "Inspiration." ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls ...

Ethel L. Lee, also known as "Space Shuttle Ethel," turned 99 years old. Ethel's family, Supervisor Janice Hahn and the Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey celebrated her birthday and ...

Kalpana Chawla, born March 17, 1962, was an Indian American astronaut who died in the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. She had a distinguished education and career in aerospace engineering ...

That remained true for the Gemini and Apollo programs and the eventual development of the space shuttle ... seconds after launch in 1986, and Columbia exploded shortly after re-entering Earth ...