Minnesota teen’s space experiment flew aboard Columbia in 1982, revealing how bugs react to weightlessness during shuttle ...

The parts for a 1972 full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city block closer to being reassembled and restored for display. The City of Downey, California began relocating "Inspiration." ...

Computer Simulations - Supercomputers model reentry dynamics to predict ... Laboratory and Stardust comet sample return mission. Even the Space Shuttle programme, which featured reusable orbiters ...

Space Shuttle Columbia, the first reusable spacecraft ... February 1, 2003 – The Columbia breaks up upon reentry during mission STS-107, killing all seven crew members. It is the second loss ...

The astronauts' return is not a rescue mission, as their extended stay was planned last summer to accommodate crew rotation and space station ... cruising speed for its reentry into the atmosphere.

After nine months on the International Space Station, a total of 286 days in space to be exact, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore splashed down in their SpaceX Dragon capsule ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls ...

The mission on Wednesday night is expected ... major NASA space crash occurred in 2003 when the space shuttle Columbia ...