From landing on the moon to navigating the Mars rover, NASA — the National Aeronautics and Space Administration — has captured the imagination of children and adults alike since its founding in 1958.

On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia was reentering Earth's atmosphere after a two-week routine mission when it exploded, killing all seven astronauts aboard and scattering debris across ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...