From stray pens to birds, Mike Leinbach, retired launch director, explains why shuttle launches sometimes got scrubbed.

When the seven crew members of space shuttle Endeavour meet up with the six astronauts on the international space station in ...

A former NASA engineer named John Muratore sat on console as launch director in early September 2016 as propellant flowed onto a Falcon 9 rocket in Florida. Ahead of a planned launch two days later, ...

NASA — A drop in storm intensity has caused the U.S. space agency NASA to return the shuttle Atlantis back to the launch pad after it was being pulled toward its hangar for shelter. The reversal means ...

At Kennedy Space Center (locally also called Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex), U.S. travelers stand just miles from active launch pads, walk beneath a Saturn V moon rocket, and look straight into ...

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida has thoroughly etched its name in spaceflight history, with a strong argument to be made that a region in the state dubbed ...

Florida's "Space Coast" is a major hub for U.S. spaceflight, hosting a record 109 rocket launches in 2025. The Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station are the two primary launch ...