Veteran astronaut John Young of Orlando and rookie Bob Crippen flew Columbia into orbit on its second launch attempt, ending ...

After two weather postponements during the weekend, skies cleared at the Kennedy Space Center and allowed NASA to successfully launch Discovery on just the second shuttle flight since the destruction ...

Downey’s Columbia Memorial Space Center is restoring a 1970s-era mockup that was the foundation for the design of all NASA’s ...

“The simple things did not provide us any resolution to the problem,” said deputy shuttle program manager Wayne Hale. The sensors are designed to shut off the shuttle’s three main engines before fuel ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - On a sleepy winter Saturday morning in 2003, most Americans had no idea that seven astronauts were gliding back to Earth after more than two weeks in space. But the whole nation ...

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

Rocket launches can be scrubbed for a variety of reasons, from technical issues to foreign objects. Retired Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach recalled scrubs caused by a ballpoint pen, boats, and ...

Retired NASA launch director Mike Leinbach launched 37 space shuttle missions and more than 240 astronauts to space.