Discovery was being prepared for liftoff in July on NASA’s second and final shuttle test flight since the fatal accident, when Columbia disintegrated on re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. A ...

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 ...

After two weather postponements during the weekend, skies cleared at the Kennedy Space Center and allowed NASA to successfully launch Discovery on just the second shuttle flight since the destruction ...

A detailed animated look at the process of getting the Space Shuttle into Earth orbit, with most operations shown at Kennedy ...