Launched 40 years ago, the Voyager space probes are on a grand tour of the cosmos that nearly ended at Saturn. Launched in August and September 1977, NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft have opened ...

And because a probe is very tiny—Voyager is about 1,500 pounds, compared to the Space Shuttle’s 4.5 million pounds at takeoff—it could be a good way to experiment with interplanetary and ...

NASA released McAuliffe's lesson notes and practice videos several years after the shuttle ... the Hubble Space Telescope — which would launch a few years later — and how the Voyager space ...

[The shuttle] ended up having the best possible ... we could have done for the same money. The cost of the space station is 300 Voyager-class satellites. I could have a dozen or more satellites ...

In 1977, two probes launched less than a month apart on a mission to the great beyond. The twin Voyager spacecraft were to travel where no other mission had gone before, exploring what lies ...

Voyager 2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center on August 20, 1977; Voyager 1, 16 days later. Both spacecraft carried TV cameras, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers, and photopolarimeters to ...

The majority owner of the future Starlab space station will soon announce a developer for George Washington Carver Science Park on farmland leased from OSU Airport.

WASHINGTON — The space shuttle Discovery, NASA's fleet leader and the world's most flown spacecraft, lifted off for the last time on Tuesday to be delivered to the Smithsonian for its permanent ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz want to relocate space shuttle Discovery to Houston. It will be more challenging than when the shuttle program ended.