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

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

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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.

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… ...

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… ...

Charlie Gibson takes an exclusive look at NASA's mission to the moon and beyond. March 24, 2009— -- For 27 years, the space shuttle has been the center of the U.S. space program and the only ...