On Jan. 16, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on its 28th mission, STS-107. NASA had five additional space shuttle ...

Jared Isaacman, the new NASA administrator, signaled he was open to offering other spacecraft to Texas instead of the ...

Before her passing in 2022, Nichelle Nichols had been an advocate and spokesperson for NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Starting in 1977, NASA hired Nichols to help promote a ...

Exactly 54 years ago today on Jan. 4, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a bill authorizing $5.5 million to develop a reusable space flight vehicle that came with a lower cost and could stay in ...

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 ...

A famous NASA space shuttle is set to be moved out of the Smithsonian and to Texas after House Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s tax bill Thursday. The focal points of the so-called “big, ...

HOUSTON — A familiar voice echoed through history with the words, "3, 2, 1… and liftoff of the shuttle Discovery and the Hubble Telescope." That proud moment marked one of NASA’s most iconic ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most ...