Exactly 54 years ago today on Jan. 4, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a bill authorizing $5.5 million to develop a ...

Violence in the North, a failed divorce referendum, and the Chernobyl disaster marked 1986. On a lighter note, Gay Byrne ...

The first RFI targets Space Launch Complex 46 (SLC-46) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Florida’s Space Coast. This ...

NASA hopes to repair computer in time for August 7 launch Next Article in U.S. » CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters)-- The U.S. space agency NASA on Thursday confirmed it had discovered the apparent ...

It was a year that saw roughly six million Americans hold hands in a continuous (more or less) line across the country to ...

NASA’s Earth Observing System provides nearly 30 years of continuous, high-quality measurements of Earth’s land, oceans, atmosphere, and ice, supporting climate research and long-term environmental ...

NASA's new chief Jared Isaacman said a controversial proposal to move the space shuttle Discovery to Texas from its current ...

This January, NHPR marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger shuttle disaster with a multi-part series honoring the life, ...

A fixture on the West Island’s political scene for decades, Bill McMurchie was elected to Pointe-Claire city council in 1990.

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger launched into unusually cold conditions. Engineers had raised concerns about rubber seals failing in low temperatures, but the launch proceeded anyway ...

As the Democratic and Republican parties have become more dogmatic, a growing number of Americans are saying, “A plague on ...

Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger knows it was a national tragedy. But dig a little deeper, and it's even more heartbreaking.