How well Artemis II manages its risks — untested hardware, deep-space distance, and limited escape options — will shape ...
NASA's tributes to fallen astronauts serve as reminders of the importance of safety in space exploration, as do tributes to these crews.
The Artemis II mission, which will send four astronauts around the moon, is currently on the launch pad at Kennedy Space ...
NASA's space shuttle Challenger completed 10 missions before it broke apart during a launch in 1986, killing seven astronauts ...
Forty years ago today, disaster struck NASA’s human spaceflight program when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds ...
NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded and broke apart Jan. 28, 1986, in the sky over East-Central Florida, killing the ...
The latest test of a next-generation rocket booster for NASA’s Artemis moon program ended with a violent structural failure, ...
Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...
For the millions of people across the country and around the world that watched the tragic loss of Challenger live, the ...
Video captured by KHOU 11 television showed the aircraft touching down on the runway without its landing gear extended. The ...
Safety concerns are mounting over NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission following the discovery of a flawed heat shield.
A catastrophic failure occurred 73 seconds after liftoff as the shuttle emerged from “Max-Q,” the period of highest ...