The Artemis II mission, which will send four astronauts around the moon, is currently on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center. Like Challenger four decades ago, the rocket is facing freezing ...

A recurring theme you will see in this article is how disasters in space exploration often have positive effects. In the preface of the investigative report, officials called the event a powerful ...

With satellite mega-constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink deploying thousands of spacecraft, monitoring their health has become an enormous challenge. Traditional methods can’t easily scale to handle ...

NASA always prepared for tragedy. A speech was written if Apollo 11 astronauts died on the Moon, and rescue plans existed for the doomed Columbia crew. The darkest contingencies of the space program.