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 ...

Getting to space isn't cheap, but SpaceX has built a reputation for getting there affordably, so how much does it cost to ...

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

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

Fletcher, NASA Administrator ... It was the second, the Columbia, that had the honor of being the first space shuttle to launch into orbit. It blasted off on April 12, 1981, exactly two decades ...

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