The postwar decades crackled with technological ambition. As defense contractors sketched the future of aviation, the space race accelerated with new spacecraft designs. Amid this ferment, a quieter ...

Leland Melvin said that flying a space shuttle was significantly less nerve-wracking than being racially profiled by the ...

The STS-51L mission clears the tower at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 28, 1986. Credit: NASA / Courtesy Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s morning newsletter for ...

Construction on the California Science Center's new Samuel Oschin Air & Space Center, home to the Endeavour shuttle, is ...

Unlike many people, University of Arizona alumnus Francis “Dick” Scobee is on his way to making a lifetime dream become reality. A major in the U.S. Air Force, Scobee, 39, is in training as an ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are preparing to travel beyond low-Earth orbit and Artemis II is the mission that gets us there. This will be NASA’s first crewed test flight in its ...

As NASA’s Artemis program advances following its first crewed mission to the moon April 10, former astronaut Bonnie Dunbar ...