Ohio native Judith Resnik among Challenger crew killed 40 yrs ago

Ohio native Judith Resnik was a mission specialist on the doomed Space Shuttle Challenger when it exploded shortly after ...

NASA is about to send people to the moon — in a spacecraft not everyone thinks is safe to fly

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some ...

NASA will fly Artemis II with the same Orion heat shield that cracked on its last mission

The Artemis II crew comprises NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. They will fly in a ...

40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...

Challenger at 40: Lessons from a tragedy

Forty years ago, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff. Seven astronauts were killed, including ...