The United States once poured money and political capital into a spaceplane concept that promised to take off from a runway, reach orbit in a single leap, and slash the cost of spaceflight. Instead of ...

However, Space.com reports that NASA and the Smithsonian have concluded that the cost just to move the shuttle would be at ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman recently signaled that the idea to relocate Discovery to Texas faces serious financial and logistical hurdles, cooling expectations that the retired orbiter would ...

That kind of strong leadership and great teamwork are the real safety systems of spaceflight.

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 ...

Texas lawmakers have demanded the Discovery shuttle be moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but daunting technical challenges remain—and Virginia officials have dug in against the move. The ...

Thirty years of flight by NASA's space shuttles will end once Atlantis returns home from this last mission. The space agency will be looking to deeper space exploration, but the future is still ...