During a WDR, NASA’s launch control runs through the countdown and fuels the rocket just as it would on launch day, but the rocket does not fire up. Before the space shuttle’s first orbital ...

Elon Musk's threat Thursday to decommission SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft would have left NASA reliant on Russian capsules to ...

It’s arguably the most important flight for NASA since the first space Shuttle launch on April 12, 1981.

[Video: Last Launch Of Shuttle Atlantis ] Atlantis ... Since then, the shuttle — the world's first and only reusable spacecraft — has become NASA's workhorse vehicle, with the five-shuttle ...

Dozens of NASA's missions to explore the cosmos could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.

Kikina, the Roscosmos cosmonaut, became the first Russian ever to launch on a SpaceX vehicle ... who has previously flown on both NASA’s space shuttle and Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft, this ...

While one is preparing for another launch, two former NASA astronauts were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.

Before the first launch attempt of the Artemis I mission last Monday, Wayne Hale, a former program manager of NASA’s space shuttle program, shared a note of caution on Twitter that the day could ...

Astronauts Steven Smith and John Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide-angle photograph from December 1999, taken ...