For three decades, NASA's space shuttle captured the world's imagination, symbolizing a new era of regular access to orbit. Officially known as the Space Transport System (STS), it was the fourth ...

The United States once poured money and political capital into a spaceplane concept that promised to take off from a runway, ...

The Space Shuttle was NASA’s workhorse for 30 years. But despite all its features, it had some fatal flaws. In 1972, Apollo 17 carried the last batch of astronauts to the lunar surface. But during ...

NASA and SpaceX will make history on May 30 when it launches the Demo-2 Crew Dragon mission, the first crewed American flight to space since the end of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. This is a major ...

NASA’s first space shuttle was meant to be named Constitution – a nod to the United States Bicentennial that year. But a write-in campaign by “Star Trek” fans prompted President Gerald Ford to change ...

Nearly two-and-a-half years after the space shuttle Columbia exploded over Texas while reentering Earth, a second fatal accident that killed all seven crew members, Discovery (STS-114) launched on ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

This sequence of never-before-seen photographs shows the Challenger space shuttle disaster from a dramatic new perspective as it explodes over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven crew on board. They ...