In the July 2003 issue of Astronomy, Bob Berman describes some of the space age’s failures, from the tragic loss of the shuttles Columbia and Challenger to the nearly catastrophic Apollo 13 mission.

The three taikonauts will remain in space without a set alternative return date while the agency assesses the situation.

The tragic launch rehearsal that nearly ended the Apollo Moon Program. The Mir Space Station collision of 1997. The re-entry failure of Space Shuttle Columbia. Each NASA and Soviet space mission is a ...

New Zealand is planning a national space mission which could see a small fleet of state-owned satellites launched into the ...