It was a cool Thursday morning in Cape Canaveral as the nation’s first space shuttle was about to make its last ever trip into space. Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off at 10:39 a.m. Jan. 16 ...

Space shuttle artifacts are property of the U.S. government, said Patti Bielling, news chief at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center. What they uncover off the coast of Florida, outside of the ...

The other is a NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter ... "The SR-71 Blackbird is designed to take off under its own power and accelerate itself to its high cruising speed," Amy Pritchett, head of the ...

We’ve ranked them for you based on data from NASA and media sources. The Shuttle’s purpose was to take astronauts ... Flights took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the shuttle ...

For the second time this week, NASA called off the launch of Artemis I on Saturday ... Before the first mission attempt, former NASA space shuttle program director, Wayne Hale, predicted ...

In operation for 30 years, NASA's space shuttle was described by the ... the ET was jettisoned off of the shuttle at an altitude of roughly 28 miles. The tank then fell into a preplanned ...

(NASA) KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – On a cold Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off from a Kennedy Space Center launch pad. Seventy-three seconds into the launch, the shuttle ...