Leland Melvin said that flying a space shuttle was significantly less nerve-wracking than being racially profiled by the ...

Forty years ago, the NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. Among the seven crew members were five NASA astronauts, as well as a payload ...

NASA's iconic Discovery space shuttle may not be on the move any time soon. Lawmakers in Texas have long sought to relocate the historic spacecraft to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and a ...

The NASA Space Shuttle program began as Space Shuttle Columbia took its maiden voyage. This was the world’s first reusable spacecraft; it lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle lasted ...

NASA says it will try to launch Atlantis on the first space shuttle mission of the year in early June, almost three months later than originally planned, so that technicians can finish repairing its ...

NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2), is one of two vehicles originally designed to haul the Saturn V rockets from Apollo era to Kennedy Space Center’s launch pads. It continued its piggyback service ...

Forty years ago, the world watched in horror as NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded mid-air, killing all seven crew members aboard. The disaster occurred at what was then the pinnacle of the U.S.