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 ...

After a short delay, SpaceX was set to try for the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 12-14 mission Friday morning ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia ... The flight was the shuttle program’s 25th mission and the first time a ...

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...

All 135 missions launched from the state's Cape Canaveral, with almost half landing there, as well. "This design presents an image of a NASA space shuttle ... The final version adds the initials ...

Read full article: INTERACTIVE: The NASA astronauts and employees who died in service to U.S. space exploration January 28th is a Day of Remembrance honoring the lives of the crew and teacher ...

25 years ago, NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on mission STS-99 with the groundbreaking Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) onboard. Among the crew was German ESA astronaut Gerhard Thiele.

I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space ... 51L mission was originally targeted for Jan. 23, 1986, but was pushed back because of delays with the Columbia shuttle ...

The space shuttle was on its 10th mission and was carrying seven people on board. Millions of Americans, including schoolchildren hoping to see the first teacher in space, witnessed the tragedy on ...

Florida (at top) and Texas dollar coins in the U.S. Mint's American Innovation series celebrating the space shuttle and Mission Control ... held last year. The final version adds the initials ...