John Herrington is a retired U.S. Navy commander who flew aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on the 16th assembly mission to the International Space Station.

Has driving through history ever been so cool, beautiful and timely than visiting Cape Canaveral, the original and current ...

Above, family members of Ellison Onizuka received memorial flags at a ceremony at the National Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl a few months after the disaster.

Prelude: It was bitterly cold in Washington for Reagan’s scheduled State of the Union address. But it wasn't the weather that intervened. Instead, the annual event was postponed by a tragedy that ...

Artemis II will send four astronauts around the moon in the first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion Spacecraft.

On Monday, after rolling the SLS rocket to be used for the Artemis II mission to the pad in January, NASA attempted its first ...

NASA plans to launch the Crew-12 mission earlier than intended after a medical evacuation at the ISS. But could the Artemis 2 mission delay it?

SpaceX launch date of Crew-12 astronauts to the International Space Station will depend on the outcome of the Artemis 2 wet ...

NASA is providing a 24/7 live feed of the Space Launch System rocket on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global space science community is electric.

On Jan. 28, 1986, NASA’s 25th space shuttle mission, Challenger, left the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Seventy-three seconds into flight, Challenger exploded over the Atlantic Ocean as ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff. All seven crew members on board were killed ...