Bright yellow tulips make for a striking foreground for the launch of a new crew to the International Space Station.

The parts for a 1972 full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city block closer to being reassembled and restored for display. The City of Downey, California began relocating "Inspiration." ...

SEE ALSO: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Video: The Final Flight According to a report by Matt Novak at Gizmodo, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) -- the secretive intelligence organization ...

Bruce McCandless II. Photo: NASA NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II stepped away from the Space Shuttle Challenger on Feb. 7, 1984, using a jet-powered backpack called the Manned Manoeuvring Unit ...

IN 1981, DEVELOPMENT OF INSULATING TILES CONTRIBUTED TO DELAYS IN THE FIRST SHUTTLE LAUNCH ... are particularly vulnerable to strikes from space debris. About 30 to 100 tiles are replaced before ...

A year ago, in celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s legendary Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, astronomers took a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula. Also known as Messier 76 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A bill introduced Thursday could help bring the Space Shuttle Discovery back home to Texas. “The first word spoken from the moon was ‘Houston.’ To honor that legacy ...

She became a pilot and then the first woman to pilot and command a space shuttle through sheer willpower ... the world of “Top Gun.” It was really extraordinary to have been a woman breaking ...

there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the story behind them is fascinating. The push for printers in space came from the combined forces of NASA’s love for checklists and the need ...