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In 1986, the Challenger space shuttle broke apart, claiming the lives of seven crew members. Among them was Concord High ...
NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo.
In honor of the launch of the last space shuttle mission today, the Atlantic has a great photographic history of the program, from the initial designs through two tragedies to recent work on the ...
On Jan. 16, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on its 28th mission, STS-107. NASA had five additional space shuttle ...
"The flight campaign for the American space shuttle began on April 12, 1981, with the launch of STS-1 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and ended on July 21, 2011, with wheels stop of STS-135.
It looks like Space Shuttle Discovery won't have to pack its bags for the Lone Star state just yet.
Tucked inside President Donald Trump's flagship tax and spending bill last month was a little-noticed provision to relocate the iconic space shuttle Discovery from a museum outside Washington to ...