CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A large section of the destroyed space shuttle Challenger has been found buried in sand at the bottom of the Atlantic, more than three decades after the tragedy that killed ...

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

The DOD SSN warns the space shuttle program of possible close conjunctions with cataloged orbiting objects. The SSN is composed of ground-based radars, electro-optical sensors, and command and control ...

Federal and state officials planned to take over the search for space shuttle debris, relieving exhausted local law enforcement officers and volunteers who have conducted much of the work since ...

An excited nation watched with hope—that quickly turned to shock—as the space shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds into its ascent on January 28, 1986. Unbeknownst to NASA engineers and the ...

DRYDEN Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. – A NASA high-altitude research aircraft flew over portions of the Space Shuttle Columbia’s flight path Saturday. NASA’s ER-2 used special cameras to ...

NASA sent a team to California to inspect material that may be part of space shuttle Columbia's wing, while searchers scouring an eastern Texas pond discovered what is believed to be a wing fragment.

WASHINGTON — A federal intelligence agency has agreed to a NASA request to take satellite pictures of space shuttle flights, seeking to quell controversy over why such images were not obtained during ...

The shuttle orbiter has been struck many times by small meteoroids and orbital debris, but it has not yet been damaged severely. Because it was not designed with the meteoroid and orbital debris ...