Transporting Discovery would be enormously complicated since the two modified Boeing 747s that carried space shuttles mounted ...

NASA may relocate Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Houston under a new $85M law, sparking debate over the ...

36 years in television news has taken Tom Schaad from his hometown of Pittsburgh, PA to stints in West Virginia, New York, and Florida where he anchored morning news at WESH-TV for several years wh… ...

The main exhibit space is where you’ll access the Shuttle Launch Experience, a simulation of the shuttle’s ascent into orbit. This is also included with your admission, but expect a wait to ...

Nelson, who has a rich history with NASA, having flown on the Space Shuttle Columbia and served as a U.S. Senator from Florida, emphasized the exceptional nature of the NASA team.

At 8:44 a.m. on February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia re-entered Earth's atmosphere at around 400,000 feet. Over the next eight minutes, Columbia descended 150,000 feet at Mach 24.1, causing ...

Four space shuttle on-the-pad aborts. STS-51F in August 1985, left, STS-55 in March 1993, STS-51 in August 1993, and STS-68 in August 1994. In the 10 years following the June 1984 abort, four ...

Forty years ago, on April 12, 1981, NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia, attached to an external tank and twin solid rocket boosters, lifted off on the first shuttle mission, STS-1, at 7 a.m. Eastern ...

Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 16, 2003. It was the 28th mission for the orbiter, with the STS-107 crew set to carry out experiments over the ...