The 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, which took the lives of 7 astronauts, changed NASA’s culture and risk-appetite ...

Here's the semi-forgotten story of how, in 1986, NASA picked an Appleton high school student's experiment to fly on the space ...

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after liftoff, live on national television. Behind the tragedy lay ignored warnings, flawed decisions, and a frozen rubber ...

Big Bird barely made it out of the 1980s in one piece. Not only was Sesame Street' s biggest star in talks to ride aboard the ...

From 9/11 to the Challenger explosion, Dover Air Force Base is deeply tied to some of America's most historic moments ...

The clapping started rhythmically, with nostalgic frequency. It’s a tradition inside Matthew Knight Arena for women’s basketball games.... While in high school, college didn’t seem like a possibility ...

The year's best nonfiction includes St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang's book about her mom, a look at Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue ...

Following a launch scrub a week earlier, space shuttle Columbia took to the skies on Nov. 12, 1981, for its second trip into space. Astronauts Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly rode the reusable, ...

Lawmakers pushing to move the iconic spacecraft from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to Texas just got the Department of Justice involved. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Texas Senators have ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Democratic Congressman Seth Magaziner is already criticizing a Republican who may challenge him next year over the potential opponent’s attendance at the U.S. Capitol on Jan.

When Yuk Chi Chan set out to build Charter Space in late 2021, it was after a long stretch of pain. As a mission manager at a satellite bus startup, he coordinated the company’s first demonstration ...

Marc Berkowitz (left), nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as assistant secretary of defense for space policy, and Joseph Jewell, Trump’s pick for assistant secretary of defense for science ...