Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

Then, due to the loss of Challenger in January 1986 and the ensuing pause of the space shuttle program, Hubble would wait yet another five years before reaching orbit. Hubble was built with a ...

That's 162 human spaceflight missions since the beginning of 2000, ranging from Space Shuttle flights to Russian Soyuz missions, Chinese astronauts' first forays into orbit, and commercial ...

On January 28, 1986, space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after lift-off. On January 16, shortly after Columbia lifted off, a piece of insulating foam on its external fuel tank came off and ...

Her classmates selected Packers quarterback Brett Favre and NBA legend Michael Jordan; she picked Ride, who flew on two missions on the space shuttle Challenger, in 1983 and 1984. You can still ...

Their space shuttle was a Hollywood creation, made originally for the film Space Cowboy and the Russian pilot Yevgeny was an English actor who studied modern languages at Oxford. After boarding a ...

The chilling final words of those onboard the doomed Polish Air Force Flight which left President Lech Kaczynski dead were immortalised by recordings from the cockpit ... who perished in the Smolensk ...

April 22, 2025 • Experts are divided whether a new missile defense system for the U.S., inspired by Israel's Iron Dome, would be worth the cost.

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American from the International Space Station landed on Sunday in Kazakhstan, ending their ...