Marking four decades since the explosion of the Challenger claimed the lives of its seven-member crew, we recap the incident, ...

On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham became the first hominid to travel into space, marking a critical milestone in ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for the intense and out-of-this-world training these pioneers underwent.

The New Mexico Museum of Space History soars from the past to the present of radio-controlled flight with its newest exhibit. “Skywired: The Story of Radio-Controlled Flight” opens on Saturday, July ...

The North American X-15 was built to flirt with the edge of space, not to cross it by accident. Yet on a research mission labeled Flight 90, a routine test profile slipped just far enough out of ...

"The flight campaign for the American space shuttle began on April 12, 1981, with the launch of STS-1 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and ended on July 21, 2011, with wheels stop of STS-135.

DVD, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 Dolby stereo. Disc 1. Those daring young men ; The fight for the skies -- Disc 2. Hawks and doves ; History of strategic bombing -- Disc 3.