A Long Island kid who loved Charlie Brown and the New York Mets would one day repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Veteran astronaut John Young of Orlando and rookie Bob Crippen flew Columbia into orbit on its second launch attempt, ending ...

Public broadcaster PBS has long been a home for excellent documentaries on the subject, from films by famed directors to ...

Science fiction is a genre that lets us explore new worlds and big ideas. It can take us to distant galaxies, show us amazing ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completed its 200,000th orbit around Earth, and on that day, astronomers were searching for a ...

Space shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas during re-entry in 2003, killing the entire crew. That loss changed Leinbach's perspective and his approach to every future mission. Now retired and ...

A new family destination called Inspiration Space Port is being planned for St. Cloud, Minnesota. The main attraction will be a full-scale space shuttle mock-up housed inside a 175-foot-tall dome.

ST. CLOUD, Minn., Sept. 2, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Planning is underway for Inspiration Space Port, a year-round family destination that will place Shuttle Inspiration, a full-scale Space Shuttle ...

This month’s picks explore an anarchic New Jersey school, an apartment hidden in a mall and the very nature of true-crime documentaries. By Ben Kenigsberg The proliferation of documentaries on ...

President Trump plans to award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the crew of NASA's Artemis II mission, CBS News has learned. A White House official confirmed the award will be presented ...

The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster resulted from both a critical technical failure (foam strike damaging the wing) and a pervasive organizational culture that normalized anomalies, stifled dissent, ...

If it were up to the crew of STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program, they would have kept flying. Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A on ...