At 4:54 PM local time, the space shuttle Discovery departed for its final flight into the heavens. A computer clitch almost cancelled the flight, but engineers were able to solve the issue in the ...

As the space shuttles complete their final missions, curator Valerie Neal at the National Air and Space Museum highlights the spacecraft's history and legacy in manned space flight. Explore ...

The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days. The space plane blasted into orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in ...

and it never served in space. For propulsion on final approach, the Buran was designed to incorporate two Saturn AL-31 jet engines situated on either side of the shuttle’s tailfin. However ...

America's last space shuttle missions occurred in 2011 ... landmark events with incredible access to the NASA program in its final days. For the photographs, Winters set up automatically ...

The OA-9 (S.S. J.R. Thompson) Cygnus has arrived at the International Space Station early Thursday ... the S.S. J.R. Thompson followed its Final Approach to the Station the same as previous ...

The end of the American space shuttle program will be marked by a Toyota Tundra towing the shuttle Endeavor to its final resting place in Los Angeles on Oct. 13. The end of the American space ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days. The space plane blasted into orbit from NASA ...