Lawmakers pushing to move the iconic spacecraft from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to Texas just got the Department of ...

The choice of the Boeing 747 as the primary aircraft to ferry the Space Shuttle orbiter was a decision rooted in the jumbo ...

In a letter to Congress, museum officials have warned the shuttle may need to be partially disassembled in order to be ...

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is asking the Department of Justice to investigate the Smithsonian Institution for potential lobbying ...

Moving the Discovery from Virginia to Texas could be risky for the fragile craft. After the space shuttle Discovery made its ...

In this episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Terry Hart, former NASA astronaut and mission specialist on ...

Eileen Collins made history as the first woman to pilot and command a Nasa spacecraft - but despite her remarkable ...

You can listen to episode 1 here. For more, search for 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. This is a BBC Audio Science Unit production for the BBC World Service ...

When the Space Shuttle lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in 1981, it was the first reusable spacecraft. The massive orange external fuel tank was the major component designed to be destroyed on ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

On Episode 180 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the headlines, from the shutdown of NASA, to the risky ...

The United States Mint will be taking orders for the 2025 American Innovation dollars Reverse Proof set that goes on sale in ...