NASA has excised former Space Shuttle manager Wayne Hale's blog from its website in a reminder that nothing is forever. Hale began his blog in 2008, as the Space Shuttle program was winding down. The ...

The RS-25s are refurbished engines left over from the Space Shuttle program. During that era, technicians swapped out main engines several times when the shuttle was on the launch pad. NASA ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – The Trump administration was long expected to move U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs, Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama shortly after taking office but 100 days in, the ...

Rehoming NASA’s fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets of Los Angeles atop a mechanical transporter for three days and ...

the Hubble Space Telescope was launched on the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 24, 1990. Since it orbits above the Earth, it can capture better cosmic images ...

Katy Perry is placing zero gravity on her critics. After the "Firework" singer received major backlash for her high-profile seat on the Blue Origin New Shepard mission, she shut down the negative ...

Hubble was launched by NASA on April 24, 1990, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. The telescope faced an early issue with its primary mirror, which was corrected by astronauts in 1993. Hubble ...

Government officials realized in the 1980s that NASA's Space Shuttle would be more expensive to fly than anticipated. After the Challenger accident in 1986, NASA launched most of its satellites ...

Hubble was launched into space aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1990 and shepherded into low Earth orbit by astronauts. It’s been there ever since, at an altitude of roughly 515 kilometers ...

The telescope journeyed into space attached to the space shuttle Discovery. Nicknamed “the People’s Telescope,” Hubble has made over 1.6 million observations of celestial objects since it ...

But Hubble was designed to be serviced in orbit, and astronauts did just that during a space shuttle mission in December 1993. They fixed the mirror problem, giving Hubble the far-reaching 20/20 ...