These are the voyages of the space shuttle Enterprise, boldly renamed by former President Gerald Ford after a massive ...

causing the orbiter to be torn apart by aerodynamic stresses. It would take two years of investigations and modifications before a NASA space shuttle flew into space again. Discovery returned NASA ...

The shuttle even did a promotional tour of the area, flying into the Central Coast base on the back of a Boeing 747.

Congress authorized NASA to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was lost shortly after liftoff in 1986. NASA used spare parts from its shuttle fleet to create the new orbiter. Endeavour ...

On this date, Jan. 16, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on its ill-fated flight on the STS-107 mission. During liftoff, ...

According to NASA, it stood at only 184 feet when stacked on the launch pad. That's still shorter than a Falcon 9 rocket — and a Space Shuttle orbiter by itself measures only 122 feet long. But our ...

The ESA Solar Orbiter has provided a stunning new look at the Sun by combining 25 high-resolution images. This mosaic offers a detailed view of the solar surface, including sunspots and granules, ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...

It is not easy to break through the Earth’s atmosphere and travel in space. So how do spaceships get enough energy to do that ...

The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air ... A jet carried the Enterprise to the base in 1979. The newest orbiter will leave Vandenberg on Tuesday for Kennedy Space Center ...

That's still shorter than a Falcon 9 rocket — and a Space Shuttle orbiter by itself measures only 122 feet long. But our familiar SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket — which launches Starlink and other ...