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

On Feb. 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart as it re-entered the earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven crew members: commander Rick Husband; pilot William McCool; payload commander Michael ...

Ice halts shipping in rivers and canal in 1936, Ghandi killed in 1948, space shuttle explodes in 1986, snow closes schools ...

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

The anniversary of the Challenger disaster marks a cold reminder of risk and management failure along with the role weather ...

Debris streaks across the skies after SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft was destroyed minutes after liftoff. Photo: Dean Olson via Storyful Wall Street Journal ...

All of its crew perished, including Israel’s first astronaut, Ilan Ramon. A former combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force, he ...

which apparently broke up as it was reaching space. Falling debris from the destroyed Starship briefly delayed airline traffic out of Miami, Florida, federal officials said. Telemetry from the ...

At 5 p.m., President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation. “The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the ...

The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air ... like the never-launched Manned Orbital Laboratory — would be destroyed by the force of the first shuttle launch.