Back on April 12, 1981, the space shuttle roared to life for the first time. Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying two astronauts – a moonwalker, John Young, and a rookie, Bob ...

Bob Crippen, who flew the first space shuttle mission in 1981, says it will be a long time before we see another spacecraft as 'magnificent' as the shuttle. Video via NASA. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla ...

As of today, NASA said, the space shuttle Discovery has gone 5,830 times around the earth, flown 148 milion miles and spent 365 days in space since its first launch in 1984. No other ship has ...

Discovery was the first Space Shuttle to visit the Station since late 2002. The two crews paid tribute to the astronauts and cosmonauts who have given their lives for space exploration.

Although NASA began early studies of space shuttle designs even before the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, the shuttle program wasn't formally launched until January 5,1972, when President ...

Astronauts who flew on the first two space shuttle missions, Dick Truly, Joe Engle and Bob Crippen, celebrated their historic flights' 35th anniversaries at a Sept. 17, 2016 gala in Houston.

For the first time ever, a space shuttle landed at Cape Canaveral AFS. Perched on top of a modified NASA 747, the Shuttle Orbiter Columbia made a historic landing here March 5.

Columbia’s first landing on April 14, 1981, drew 225,000 fans to Edwards Air Force Base. The crowd size overwhelmed the base police and facilities. For the next landing, Edwards was ready. In a ...

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 ...