On May 16, 2011, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on its 25th and final flight. This was also the penultimate mission of ...

NASA space shuttle astronauts Tom Akers and Joe Tanner, who flew into orbit four times each, will be inducted into the U.S.

NASA astronauts Tom Akers and Joe Tanner, both four-time space shuttle veterans, and two of the few people to ever touch the ...

In 2010, NASA retired four space shuttles, sending them across the United States as a historical reminder of the nation's space history. But none remain in Houston, where NASA’s Johnson Space Center ...

Mike Massimino is a retired NASA astronaut and veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.

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 ...

There has been only one mission of the Artemis program to date, an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft that was conducted back in 2022. Judging this solely from this perspective, you could be ...

Bob Ebeling was anxious and angry as he drove to work on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. He kept thinking about the space shuttle Challenger, cradled on a Florida launchpad 2,000 miles away. Ebeling ...

Discovery has been on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum for more than a decade. Now, Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn want to bring it to Texas. Reading time 3 minutes The ...