During its secretive mission, the X-37B will test new laser communications gear and a "quantum" navigation sensor.

It's not quite the achievement of a lunar landing, but astronaut Mike Massimino made Twitter history with a 139-character post to the micro-blogging site -- the first person to do so from space. "From ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot.

News conferences, events and operating hours for the Kennedy Space Center’s News Center, Fla., have been set for the July 1 launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-121. .

SpaceX was not one of Amazon’s original choices to fly up its Project Kuiper broadband internet satellites, but Elon Musk’s ...

The business of hurtling humans into space is getting routine on the Space Coast with the fourth flight of a SpaceX Crew Dragon queued up for this week. The crew going for that ride arrived in ...

4:57 p.m. — Close crew hatch 7:02 p.m. — Launch Launch + 1 hour – Post-launch News Conference Michael Griffin, NASA administrator Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space ...

Behold, NASA's STS-1 shuttle flight of Columbia. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's been 40 years since NASA's first ...