Military Aviation History on MSN

Inside the USSR’s secret space shuttle program Buran

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly built its own space shuttle to rival America’s NASA program. Called Buran, it ...
Morning Overview on MSN

What really happens when a space shuttle returns with no astronauts

When a spacecraft comes home without people on board, it is not a cinematic failure but a carefully choreographed engineering ...
C-SPAN

U.S. Space Program

From Mercury & Apollo Missions to the Space Shuttle Program, Mars Rover Landings, & Artemis II.

A day of tragedy for the space shuttle over Florida. See original live coverage

On Jan. 28, 1986, America witnessed a tragedy: the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger in the blue skies over Florida. The ...
Concord Monitor

‘Part of our human destiny’: The evolution of space exploration from shuttle to SpaceX

NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...