On this day in 1999, with the launch of NASA's orbiter Columbia, U.S. astronaut Eileen Collins became the first woman to ...

Blue Origin announced the next six passengers who will soon board one of the company's spacecraft for a trip to the edge of ...

A satellite dish that extends from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Discovery mysteriously failed Thursday morning, leaving the seven-member crew without a radar used for navigation and without any ...

In other good news for the SLS and Artemis programs, Congress recently approved additional funding to preserve the Artemis IV ...

Unsurprisingly, the list of the most expensive missions consists of voyages from NASA. As for the ones on the strictest of ...

Organized and fully sponsored by YF Life International Limited (YF Life), the 2025 YF Life Jr. Space Camp Program will take ...

Got a Space Nerd in your car, then you have to visit a NASA site. NASA Visitor Centers are scattered across the U.S. and are ...

If you're visiting Florida, there's no reason why you shouldn't find the time to add the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to your itinerary - here's why it's a good day out ...

The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from ...

A political effort to remove space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and place it on display in Texas encountered some ...

Transporting Discovery would be enormously complicated since the two modified Boeing 747s that carried space shuttles mounted on their roofs are themselves museum pieces. Museum officials claim moving ...

This 2001 illustration labels important parts of a space shuttle orbiter. The orbiter was the heart and brains of the space shuttle and served as the crew transport vehicle that carried astronauts to ...