A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill," a major economic and policy package ...

Science Space NASA US Mint releases Space Shuttle $1 gold coin The iconic NASA transport represents Florida in the ongoing American Innovation Series. By Andrew Paul Published May 15, 2025 2:43 PM EDT ...

From television episodes dedicated to explaining the accident to children, to space education centers being built in its memory, the Challenger, and those on board, have never been forgotten. Here is ...

What Mike and Amy created inside this shuttle bus is more than just a DIY conversion; it's a home-sweet-home that fits them perfectly and allows them to live freely and unconventionally.

Rehoming NASA’s fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets of Los Angeles atop a mechanical transporter for three days and ...

Included with daily admission, this viewing area is located next to Space Shuttle Atlantis®. Visitors view rockets shoot through the sky once they clear the tree line from launch locations ...

It was the morning of Jan. 28, the day of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Icicles formed on the launch pad and service tower in the evening and early morning hours on January 28, 1986.

On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart shortly after it lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, killing all aboard. Among the seven crew members was Christa ...

Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 16, 2003. It was the 28th mission for the orbiter, with the STS-107 crew set to carry out experiments over the ...

View Superb view of the payload bay of the space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-43) in front of a magnificent globe shining in all its blue light during the extraction of a satellite (TDRS-E) from the ...

But while the Space Shuttle came alive in the 80s, it was born 50 years ago on January 5, 1972, when President Richard Nixon announced that what NASA would take on as an encore to the Moon ...