Artemis II will send four astronauts around the moon in the first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion Spacecraft.

The Akron native was among seven astronauts lost in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Decades later, her ...

More than 50 years after Apollo 17, NASA’s Artemis II will send four astronauts on a 10-day loop around the Moon to test the agency’s deep-space hardware.

NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded and broke apart Jan. 28, 1986, in the sky over East-Central Florida, killing the seven astronauts on board.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Families of the astronauts lost in the space shuttle Challenger accident gathered back at the launch site Thursday to mark that tragic day 40 years ago. All seven on board ...

NASA's space shuttle Challenger completed 10 missions before it broke apart during a launch in 1986, killing seven astronauts ...

On Feb. 1, 2003, NASA was once again dealing with tragedy when Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven astronauts were ...

If he makes the cut, Cameron Jones will become the seventh University of Illinois alum to earn the title of NASA astronaut. Here's a glance at the six others, ranked ...