Forty years later, the chilly winter morning is one I can never forget, nor can I forget the seven astronauts who would not live another day. As a boomer born in the year of Sputnik, I was fascinated ...

China’s push to match the world’s leading space powers took a dramatic turn when its first orbital-class reusable rocket reached space, then broke apart in a fiery crash during its attempted return.

A private Chinese space firm successfully sent its Zhuque-3 rocket to orbit but failed in its historic attempt to re-land the rocket booster Wednesday – the first such trial by a Chinese firm as the ...