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

This story was updated at 3:37 p.m. ET. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The space shuttle Discovery has returned to Earth from its final mission, never to soar in orbit again.

Explore the detailed process of getting the Space Shuttle into orbit around the Earth, primarily conducted at Kennedy Space ...

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days.. The space plane blasted into orbit from NASA ...

Louis Stodieck remembers the first time he saw a space shuttle blast off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In April 1991, Stodieck, an aerospace engineer, was the associate director of ...

It returned to Earth after 276 days in orbit. ... The Boeing-built X-37B, roughly the size of a small bus and resembling a miniature space shuttle craft, ...

This system will center on a space vehicle that can shuttle repeatedly from Earth to orbit and back.” Roughly three months later, on April 20, 1972, Congress passed the budget that allowed ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The U.S. military's classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days. The space plane blasted into orbit from NASA's Kennedy ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days. The space plane blasted into orbit from NASA ...

The space plane blasted into orbit in December 2023 on a secret mission. The U.S. military's classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days.