I wasn’t even two years old when the worst tragedy in the U.S. Space Program took place. In January of 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger suddenly exploded 73 seconds after blastoff.

Kristen Stewart is set to make her TV debut leading Prime Video’s new For All Mankind rival, The Challenger, as space icon Sally Ride.

A set of memorabilia chronicling Sally Ride's pioneering path to space just fetched a pretty penny at auction. In June 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to reach the final frontier, on ...

Click to open image viewer. This black leather name tag with silver embossed lettering belonged to Dr. Sally K. Ride. NASA issued Velcro-backed name tags of this kind to be worn on shuttle astronaut ...

The Space Shuttles were reusable vehicles that launched like a rocket, landed like a glider, deployed satellites and helped build the international space station. The first spaceflight of NASA’s ...

The diary Ride kept during her second spaceflight went for nearly $10,000. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, ...