NASA astronaut Don Pettit, an energetic tinkerer and photographer, used his off-duty time on the International Space Station ...

The Space Shuttle’s iconic design (including the image displayed on the new $1 coins) frequently featured not just the shuttle itself, but its large external fuel tank and two solid rocket boosters.

Rehoming NASA’s fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets of Los Angeles atop a mechanical transporter for three days and ...

CHANTILLY, Va. — The Space Shuttle Discovery has been a prolific reminder of our nation’s space exploration mission at the National Air & Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Fairfax ...

NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery may be removed from the Smithsonian and put on display in Houston, if two lawmakers from Texas get their way. U.S. Senators John Cornyn ...

Space Shuttle ‘Discovery’ departs Edwards Air Force Base in California on top of NASA 747 aircraft for transport back to Kennedy Space Center, circa. October 1,1990.

Texas Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are blaming political favoritism for what they call a decades-old snub—and now they’re pushing to bring the Space Shuttle Discovery back to Houston Both ...

It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, exploding in mere minutes.The disaster — which claimed the lives of ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

Space Shuttle Reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft The three parts that made up the space shuttle were the orbiter - the part that resembled an aeroplane, the large orange external tank and the 2 ...

China has shown off a reusable shuttle that it intends to use to ferry cargo to and from its Tiangong space station. As Space.com reports, the project — dubbed Haolong — recently won the state ...