NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...

Space exploration has always carried extreme risk, and some pioneers paid for progress with their lives. While only a handful of people have died beyond Earth’s atmosphere, many more were lost during ...

There’s a very common question asked of people working in space exploration: Why explore space when we have so many problems on Earth? From Wi-Fi to satellite images of real estate, to matters of ...

It was inherently risky, and space exploration continues to be so,” FSU history professor Ronald Doel said, referring to the ...

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Register for 2027 at [email protected] and we will contact you with confirmed tour details, including dates and prices, when available. Take off on a quest through the past, present and future of ...

On Episode 193 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talks with NASA Chief Historian Dr. Roger Launius about about how NASA tracks its history, the public's perceptions of spaceflight, and ...

The history of space exploration is filled with projects that never came to be in the real world, or projects that, despite being brought very close to production, never actually got to power humanity ...

Space exploration has always been a costly endeavor, with missions requiring vast resources, cutting-edge technology, and years of research and development. The National Aeronautics and Space ...