On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff. Pilot Michael Smith's final words ...

Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a Space Shuttle, has her story told in a documentary, 'Spacewoman'.

On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. The space shuttle Columbia safely touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

Click to open image viewer. NASA presented this flag, mission patch, and certificate to the Museum as mementos of the historic first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1 in 1981. Commander John Young and ...

Seven astronauts were killed in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster. Because a teacher was aboard, millions of schoolchildren watched the event live in school. Forty years later, many of those ...