A reflection on the Jan. 12, 1986, launch of Space Shuttle Columbia’s STS-61-C mission, published on the Challenger ...

News conferences and other events have been set for the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-110, the 109th launch in the Shuttle program. Mission STS-110 will launch between 2 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On November 22, 1989, the space shuttle Discovery launched on mission STS-33. It lifted off from Kennedy Space Center and up ...

Former astronaut Tom Jones interviewed more than 130 fellow astronauts to create a definitive oral history of the space shuttle program. Edited by Tom Jones In his new book Space Shuttle Stories, ...

Amateur astronomer Tony Hoffman of New York City took this long-exposure photo of the shuttle Discovery (right light line) and International Space Station as they flew over Flushing Meadows Park in ...

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1. The previous attempt was a "botched launch". A sensor problem was detected in one of a quad-redundant sensor which wouldn't have been used in the flight anyway.<BR><BR>2. The hydrogen fuel low ...