Congress approved some funding to relocate the Space Shuttle Discovery to Space Center Houston, which prompted some pushback ...

Built in the 1906s, NASA’s crawler transporter has carried Saturn V rockets for Apollo, Space Shuttles and is now a key part of getting moon-bound Artemis to the launch pad.

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On the morning of January 28, 1986, seven crew members were killed when the space shuttle Challenger broke apart a little over a minute after it launched. Those killed included five NASA astronauts, ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

The space shuttle's seven crew members died, including one civilian teacher. The tragedy changed the course of NASA's future. On the morning of January 28, 1986, seven crew members were killed when ...