A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill," a major economic and policy package ...

NASA's Space Shuttle programme officially ended in 2011, after 30 years of service. The final mission, STS-135, was flown by ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, an energetic tinkerer and photographer, used his off-duty time on the International Space Station ...

There are about three Space Shuttle orbiters currently in operation - Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, which are all ...

The last Dragon spacecraft that SpaceX plans to build entered orbit for the first time with "grace." Reaching space on the ...

Current International Space Station, a collaborative effort by 14 countries, is due to be decommissioned by 2030. The first ...

On May 16, 2011, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on its 25th and final flight. This was also the penultimate mission of the entire shuttle program. Five NASA astronauts and one Italian ...

Here's what it would take. Work crews set up a sign as the Space Shuttle Endeavour arrives at the Forum enroute to the California Science Center on October 13, 2012, in Inglewood, California.

And Endeavour herself ends her fifth flight with 695 off-planet days — twice as much time as her now-retired shuttle namesake spent in space. But as the longest mission by a crewed spacecraft ...

About $360 million of the $400 million cost has been raised. In all, NASA operated five shuttles in space. Shuttle Challenger was lost and its crew of seven died in a launch accident Jan. 28, 1986.

Shuttle Challenger was lost and its crew of seven died in a launch accident Jan. 28, 1986. Columbia broke apart during reentry on Feb. 1, 2003, killing all seven on board.