On Sept. 9, 1994, space shuttle Discovery took to the skies on its 19th trip into space. During their 11-day mission, the STS ...

Workers at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center have returned a piece of space history to its rightful place at the space museum ...

The story of the Columbia disaster in 2003, with astronauts' families and Nasa staff sharing personal stories of the launch, the unfolding catastrophe and the fall-out. As the space shuttle roared ...

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When people think of a space shuttle they think of the American version – the space shuttle, or orbiter, a reusable, winged spacecraft that rode to orbit on a rocket but landed back on Earth ...

We talked to retired astronaut Joan Higginbotham, the third Black woman to ever go into space, about her inspiring journey.

By "two space shuttles", Nelson may have been referring ... NASA explained that upon re-entering, the Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, suffered a "catastrophic failure due to a breach that occurred ...

near a NASA prototype orbiter that paved the way for the space shuttle program, surrounded by 27 planes and helicopters that flew in conflicts including World War II and the Vietnam War.

A nearly 50-year-old mockup that was part of the space shuttle development ... cranes lifted the "Pathfinder" orbiter model back into place as part of the full shuttle assembly outside the ...

damaging the orbiter's wing. That followed the catastrophic launch failure of the space shuttle Challenger in January 1986. Both incidents caused the loss of all crew onboard, killing 14 ...