Although the Space Shuttle was capable of rocket-powered rides to space, it required the help of a Boeing 747 for earthbound ...

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

On May 19, 2000, the space shuttle Atlantis launched with the very first "glass cockpit." This was one of several big ...

In the 1990s, Lockheed Martin and McDonnell Douglas were quietly building spacecraft designed to make the Space Shuttle ...

At least two Challenger astronauts are believed to have survived the shuttle's explosion, enduring a harrowing 2-minute, 45-second descent before impact ...

It's been 14 years since the Space Shuttle Endeavour flew its final mission. With construction of the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center nearing completion, the shuttle now has a permanent home in Los ...

Mission nearly complete. The California Science Center says construction is finally finished on a building that will house Space Shuttle Endeavour.

In 1977, the United Kingdom's King Charles III, a prince at the time, met with NASA astronauts Fred Haise, Gordon Fullerton, ...

The Smithsonian Institution owns the space shuttle Discovery. A new law mandates Discovery's move to Houston, Texas. The Smithsonian opposes the relocation. Moving Discovery is costly and complex. Key ...

Houston, we may have a problem ... for your senators' plans to bring a NASA space shuttle to Texas. NASA's new chief Jared Isaacman said a controversial proposal to move the space shuttle Discovery to ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a multi-nation construction project that is the largest single structure humans ever ...