Two senators earmarked $85 million for the move to Houston—but safely shipping an 86-ton shuttle orbiter cross-country could ...

If there is a custody battle to be had, the Smithsonian has it locked down.

For millions of Americans, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11. On that chilly January day in 1986, ...

Many forget that airports are not always designed with airliners in mind. Many are actually designed with craft that fly much ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

REPORTED THE WORDS OF JIMMY CARTER LIVE ON. FAR FROM HOME AS WELL. NASA’S VOYAGER ONE, THE MOST DISTANT HUMAN MADE OBJECT FROM EARTH, CARRIES A MESSAGE FROM HIM. HISTORY MAY SHOW OTHER PRESIDENTS WITH ...

(Reuters) - U.S. space agency NASA is ending its shuttle program this summer after two more missions. Shuttle Endeavour is due to launch on Friday on a mission to deliver a high-profile physics ...

Noted author, poet, and NASA historian Bruce McCandless III ("Wonders All Around") grew up in close proximity to the thundering roar of Apollo-era rockets and the Space Shuttle Program as the son of ...

The NASA Space Shuttle program began as Space Shuttle Columbia took its maiden voyage. This was the world’s first reusable spacecraft; it lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle lasted ...

The space shuttle system has been modified many times since the first launch of space shuttle Columbia in 1981. During the 1980s, major upgrade programs were established to respond to problems and ...