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

Taylor Jenkins Reid's "Atmosphere" tells the story of Joan, an astronomer who becomes an astronaut, and Vanessa, an ...

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 ...

A space shuttle could be touching down — metaphorically — in St. Cloud. Gov. Tim Walz last week said a donor had inquired about placing a space shuttle in central Minnesota.

A new book details the errors that went into the disaster that doomed the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986. AP At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe ...

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 ...

The core stage's 8.4-meter diameter was identical to the space shuttle's external tank, which carried the same propellants for the shuttle's main engines. Alas, construction wasn't that easy.