It was inherently risky, and space exploration continues to be so,” FSU history professor Ronald Doel said, referring to the ...

NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...

The history of the rocket stretches back far longer than most people realize. Long before spaceflight, early civilizations experimented with gunpowder‑powered projectiles, discovering—sometimes ...

Laying the foundations for space exploration -- World War II paves the way for space exploration -- Making space exploration real -- The Space Age dawns -- The race to the moon -- New nations, new ...

Space exploration has always carried extreme risk, and some pioneers paid for progress with their lives. While only a handful of people have died beyond Earth’s atmosphere, many more were lost during ...

Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff while carrying seven people, including "Teacher in Space" participant Christa McAuliffe. Nobody survived the launch on Jan. 28, 1986 from NASA's Kennedy ...

NASA ordered its first-ever medical evacuation from space for Crew-11. Find out why the mission ended early and what happens ...

Join us for an exciting journey through a captivating Moon exhibit at a renowned space museum, celebrating the achievements ...

A “natural history” approach to space exploration would take into account instead developments in the fields of physics, ...

There’s a very common question asked of people working in space exploration: Why explore space when we have so many problems on Earth? From Wi-Fi to satellite images of real estate, to matters of ...

The winners of the inaugural Global Space Awards were recently announced at a star-studded ceremony at London's Natural History Museum. The event championed innovation and sustainability, while also ...

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will prepare to survey billions of galaxies, and multiple nations will launch ...