Chilling final words of Space Shuttle Challenger pilot before explosion killed 7

On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff. Pilot Michael Smith's final words ...

How NASA’s ‘cowboys in airplanes’ could help save astronauts

NASA’s powerful Launch Abort System — literally designed to outrun the debris from an exploding rocket and save the lives of ...

How NASA plans to keep Artemis astronauts alive if disaster strikes

NASA's powerful Launch Abort System, designed to outrun an exploding rocket, is the result of years of work from scientists ...
Ars Technica

NASA wants to know how the launch industry’s chic new rocket fuel explodes

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined kerosene was favored for its easy handling and non-toxicity, hydrazine for its ...
Houston Public Media

Artemis II rockets still have a fuel problem. NASA’s administrator says ‘we should not be surprised’

The full Moon is seen behind NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, standing atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, at NASA's Kennedy ...