Yahoo Racing is powered by Motorsport Network, providing expert reporting, analysis, and insider access across the world’s top racing series. The chief science legacy of NASA's space shuttle program ...
When a spacecraft comes home without people on board, it is not a cinematic failure but a carefully choreographed engineering ...
In 1986, an experiment conceived by an Appleton high school student resulted in the first and only paper ever made in space. The experiment, flown on the space shuttle Columbia, tested if paper made ...
NASA’s 1986 Challenger mission was intended to inspire students to consider a future in space. The crew’s family is ...
Seven astronauts lost their lives during the Challenger space shuttle disaster on Jan. 28, 1986. Four decades later, human ...
A catastrophic failure occurred 73 seconds after liftoff as the shuttle emerged from “Max-Q,” the period of highest ...
Hundreds of thousands of onlookers watched as the Shuttle Endeavour left Earth's atmosphere early this morning, heading into space with its cargo of five American astronauts, an Italian astronaut and ...
NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...
David Klaus, a retired University of Colorado Boulder professor, was a 23-year-old launch control engineer at NASA when the Challenger spacecraft exploded shortly after liftoff in 1986. When his ...