The Blue Origin New Shepard space program was founded by Jeff Bezos, and allowed for King and a group of influential women to ...

Udvar-Hazy Center at the Smithsonian since 2011. Discovery, which replaced Space Shuttle Enterprise at the Smithsonian, is the last of the shuttles to be owned by the federal government.

An earlier shuttle, Enterprise, was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been marked by very public tragedy.

A ceremony with astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, followed where Discovery was displayed nose-to-nose with Space Shuttle Enterprise. Among the attendees were Mike ...