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

(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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

Pieces of Vandenberg Space Force Base history crashed down on Tuesday as remnants of the West Coast Space Shuttle program were demolished to make way for ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Space Shuttle facilitated our ability to observe both earth and the universe from low-earth orbit. It is where we learned how to live and work ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. space agency NASA is ending its shuttle program this summer after two more missions. The shuttle Endeavour blasted off on Monday on a mission to deliver a high-profile physics ...