Led by commander Mark Polansky, the astronauts will run through emergency escapes from the launch pad, practise landing on Kennedy Space Center's runway and learn how to put out fires on the shuttle.

Late last year, a Soyuz rocket launched three astronauts to orbit from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. But there was more "blast" to the Nov. 27 blastoff than intended. The launch ...

NASA says it will try to launch Atlantis on the first space shuttle mission of the year in early June, almost three months later than originally planned, so that technicians can finish repairing its ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Artemis 2 launch vehicle and spacecraft have returned to the launch pad for a launch as soon as April 1. The mobile launch platform carrying the Space Launch System rocket and Orion ...

Welcome to Edition 8.32 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week is NASA’s shake-up of the Artemis program. On paper, at least, the changes appear to be quite sensible. Canceling the big, new ...