"Until we fix this, we're not ready to go fly again," shuttle program manager Bill Parsons told reporters at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. "You can say that means they're grounded." ...

NASA succeeded in returning the Space Shuttle fleet to flight following the devastating loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger and her seven-member crew on the STS-51L mission. Now, in a radically ...

The two U.S. senators from Texas are hoping to bring one of NASA’s famed space shuttles to what they call its rightful home – ...

On April 7, 1983, astronauts took the first spacewalk outside of a space shuttle during mission STS-6. This was the maiden ...

Space shuttle Discovery may be removed from the Smithsonian and put on display at Space Center Houston, if two senators from ...

"The space agency gave up on tile repair in the ... after two close calls on the STS-93 mission grounded the shuttle fleet. At takeoff, a pin broke loose and ruptured cooling tubes in one of ...

NASA is extremely unlikely to build a new space shuttle to replace Columbia, leaving the space agency with the three remaining orbiters as its entire fleet for the foreseeable future. The next ...

The space shuttle Atlantis was to roll out to the launch pad this week for a trip to the international space station. Instead, NASA must decide when the grounded fleet should fly again ...

With America’s Space Shuttle fleet out of action, is it out of the race? Or has President George W Bush’s call to send humans to Mars put the US back in front? Is space exploration primarily a ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A bill introduced Thursday could help bring the Space Shuttle Discovery back home to Texas. “The first word spoken from the moon was ‘Houston.’ To honor that legacy ...

But they won't be riding a US spacecraft. NASA retired its space shuttle fleet in mid-2011. Meanwhile, commercial carriers like SpaceX and Boeing are still building, testing, and certifying their ...