Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

HOUSTON — Texas U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on Thursday filed new legislation aimed at bringing the Space Shuttle ...

The shuttle is currently located at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia ...

When young, aspiring astronauts dream about shooting off into space in a rocket ship, their minds rarely wander to worst case scenario situations. Instead, they fantasize about discovering life on ...

The director of 'Spacewoman,' about the Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a space shuttle mission, had its European ...

Bruce McCandless II. Photo: NASA NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II stepped away from the Space Shuttle Challenger on Feb. 7, 1984, using a jet-powered backpack called the Manned Manoeuvring Unit ...

But NASA controlled the launches and crews. That remained true for the Gemini and Apollo programs and the eventual development of the space shuttle, a reusable spacecraft that could glide to a ...