Operating in orbit demands engineering solutions beyond what any airliner or rocket could offer—and the Space Shuttle ...

Mark Lee, a four-time space shuttle astronaut and Viroqua High School graduate, will be inducted into the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame on October 18.

Exploration has never been a safe occupation. For every significant discovery, there has been sacrifice by those seeking out ...

Unlike NASA’s space shuttle, fundamentally built for scientific ... which was to be equipped with a pressurized cockpit and life-support system for missions lasting up to several hours.

To simplify the task of writing and revising software for the space shuttle, NASA hired Intermetrics ... are fitted with new altimeters and cockpit instruments, upgraded to automatically integrate ...

Looking out from the cockpit, pilot Robert L ... In a 2020 'Astronomy Picture of the Day' post, NASA wrote: "At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II ...

(foot stomping) (upbeat music) -[Mike] Nebraska kids work with NASA to build and launch a ... MIRA creators tested with the robot on the space shuttle, and Farritor and others operating it at ...

Mr. John William “Jack” Spencer, age 88, of Columbus, Ohio, formerly of Switzerland County, Indiana. Jack was born on March 6, 1937, in Madison, Indiana, the son of the late Eugene Simpson and Mildred ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit returns to Earth on a Soyuz spacecraft later this week. Read about his extraordinary ride home on ...

If Congress decides to grant Houston a space shuttle, Space Center CEO William Harris says the city is far more ready than it ...