The Space Shuttle era ended with Atlantis’s final flight on July 21, 2011, closing a major chapter in space exploration. For ...

NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...

Current and former NASA employees have co-signed a declaration protesting changes at the agency that some say pose a grave ...

The signatories of the “Voyager Declaration” warned the space agency’s leadership about the consequences of major budget cuts ...

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Designs for the Next Space Shuttle. By ABC News. ... 2003, 1:09 PM. Feb. 10, 2003 -- When the space shuttle first launched on April 21, 1981, it opened a whole new era in space exploration for NASA.

Four undergrads at Texas Christian University joined forces to create a seam that is meant to prevent lunar dust from ...

NASA is targeting Monday, April 5, for the launch of the next space shuttle from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Shuttle Discovery’s seven crew members had planned to lift… ...

The ISS has been operational for well over two decades, but its days are numbered. Here's what the plan for human habitation ...

WASHINGTON — At the next space shuttle launch, NASA will host 150 people from around the world and provide them with a behind-the-scenes perspective to share with their followers via the soci… ...