Forty years ago, I was at Mission Control at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for the launch of the Challenger. I was working in data communications. My job was to ensure all telemetry links between ...

A catastrophic failure occurred 73 seconds after liftoff as the shuttle emerged from “Max-Q,” the period of highest mechanical stress in the lower atmosphere. The vehicle broke apart in flight and ...

Jan. 27 is a dark day in the world of space exploration. It’s the anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three NASA ...

Landslides closed Highway 1 for three years. No one expects this will be the end of its battle with the forces of nature.

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...

BAE Systems, Maritime Solutions Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, was awarded a $204,160,189 firm-fixed-price (FFP) contract action ...

The Vajont Dam disaster was one of the deadliest engineering failures in modern history. Engineers were warned repeatedly that the mountain above the reservoir was unstable, yet construction continued ...

Some automobiles capture hearts with stunning looks and ambitious promises, only to break down those dreams with catastrophic mechanical failures. These beloved classics hid serious engineering flaws ...

The job cuts expected this month are part of a plan by the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to remake the agency. By Scott Dance Reporting from Washington Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

A fire early Tuesday morning caused more than $1 million in estimated damages to the Red Horse restaurant, one of the mainstays of Frederick’s restaurant scene for more than 50 years, according to ...

Months before the U.S. military arrested Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, opposition leader María Corina Machado called for what she described as the most ambitious economic transformation in the nation’s ...