Much of the shuttle’s storied history was written in Houston, home to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. But today, Discovery rests ...

Said vehicle was due to be based on the Martin Marietta X-24, an experimental lifting-body aircraft that was built in real life and was instrumental in determining the aerodynamic qualities of ...

Meet a NASA astronaut, Disney artist and more at the Space Museum and Grissom Center in Bonne Terre on June 28. Learn about ...

Real-life space travel involves rigorous preparation, massive teams of support staff, ... who flew aboard the space shuttle in 2002 and 2009 to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

Pilots engaged in real flight was the “right stuff,” as author Tom Wolfe documented in his biography of the first space program astronauts. One shuttle’s name even made reference to the ...

Later life of Enterprise. In March 1978, after more ALT testing at Edwards, Enterprise was transported to Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, where additional parts, such as an external tank ...