WASHINGTON — NASA will give 150 of its Twitter followers an insider’s look at the nation’s space program and the opportunity to view a space shuttle launch in person. The fourth shuttle launch Tweetup, scheduled April 18-19, will be held at NASA’s ...

CRESTON, Iowa (AP) -- A piece of equipment from a Creston company will help give the space shuttle Discovery a boost into space. Fansteel/Wellman Dynamics manufactured 90-degree elbow-shaped fuel lines that carry liquid oxygen to the shuttle's main engine.

After three tries and six days of waiting, Southeast Missouri State University physics professor John Tansil and a group of physics students finally got to see the space shuttle Endeavour lift off Wednesday afternoon. Only instead of watching it from an ...

A survey of space shuttle Atlantis' outer body has revealed that four tiles on the right side have "some dings" in them, the flight director said Tuesday. "As we were going through the surveys we did see probably about 21 inches in all