This marked the only shuttle landing at White Sands. First American woman in space: STS-7 (Challenger) The launch of Challenger on June 18, 1983, marked a pivotal milestone: Sally Ride became the ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy ...

Two major space launches in two days got 2025 off to a rousing start. The Blue Ghost lunar lander is on its way to the moon, and just one day after it left Earth, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue ...

Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space ... On Dec. 6, just two days after launch, the astronauts mated Zarya with Unity, a connecting module built in the United ...

It was the second, the Columbia, that had the honor of being the first space shuttle to launch into orbit. It blasted off on April 12, 1981, exactly two decades after Yuri Gagarin became the first ...

Launch recap ... Only 17 months ago, Space Perspective officials hosted a crowd of Brevard County politicians, industry officials and media during a high-profile August 2023 ribbon-cutting ...

Sierra Space officials announced the autonomous spacecraft successfully completed and passed testing milestones in ...

The space shuttle and International Space Station are set to launch onto dollar coins in celebration ... features the Statue of Liberty in profile. Created by artist Craig Campbell, the obverse ...

For the first time, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put a payload in orbit using its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket.