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Boeing finally launches its Starliner capsule with NASA astronauts on board
Washington Post· 2 hours agoBoeing’s Starliner spacecraft finally carried a pair of astronauts to orbit on Wednesday, a key...
Boeing's Starliner joins select club of crewed US spaceships
AFP via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoThroughout the annals of American space exploration, a select few spacecraft have had the...
'Challenger' is definitive account of shuttle disaster
Republican-American· 2 days agoWhen the Challenger space shuttle exploded a little over a minute after its launch in 1986, it...
Dearborn library to host talk with author of new book on Challenger shuttle disaster
Detroit Free Press· 3 days agoMore than 38 years after the space shuttle Challenger explosion, a new book explores the events...
Space shuttle fliers David Hilmers, Marsha Ivins enter Astronaut Hall of Fame
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThis year's U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony was a reunion of sorts, as honorees David...
NASA Finally Has an Alternative to SpaceX
The Atlantic· 2 hours agoTwo veteran NASA astronauts are now on their way to the International Space Station. This particular commute to the space station is a major moment in...
‘There was the world before the Challenger accident and the world after’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoNo, not the Post Office in 2018, but Nasa in 1986, when the Challenger Space Shuttle exploded 73...
Astronaut's diary found among fallen Columbia space shuttle debris added to National Library of...
SPACE.com· 6 days agoIlan Ramon wrote most of the diary while he was in orbit aboard the space shuttle Columbia, serving...
Book excerpt: "Challenger" by Adam Higginbotham
CBS News via Yahoo News· 3 days agoRead an excerpt below. Prefer to listen? Audible has a 30-day free trial available right now. Flight Control Room One Johnson Space Center, Houston...
The last of the Moon men: the stories of the surviving Apollo astronauts
BBC via Yahoo News· 1 day agoFred Haise (Apollo 13) Fred Haise was part of the crew of Apollo 13 that narrowly avoided disaster...