The X-38—had it gone operational—would not have been the first reusable spacecraft. But it helped lay the groundwork for ...

The City of Downey, California began relocating "Inspiration." The new home of NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour, the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, has reached new heights and the ...

The transportation of the NASA space shuttle Enterprise, designated as Orbiter Vehicle 101 (OV-101), to Space Launch Complex ...

After working to improve the booster design and creating new management practices to improve safety, NASA relaunched shuttle flights on Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center.

February 18th has been a significant date throughout history, marking a variety of events that have shaped the world. In a ...

NASA is extremely unlikely to build a new space shuttle to replace Columbia, leaving the space agency with the three remaining orbiters as its entire fleet for the foreseeable future. The next ...

Tuesday marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy.The shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff on Jan. 28, 1986.New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe was one of the ...

NASA's fallen astronauts: a photo memorial — New NASA video honors fallen astronauts of Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia — Space shuttle Columbia: NASA's first shuttle in space NASA holds its ...

The explosion led to the grounding of the Space Shuttle fleet for nearly three years, during which various safety measures, solid rocket booster redesign and a new policy on management decision ...

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...