And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is the most powerful rocket the agency has ever built—yet it’s also one of the most ...

If Congress decides to grant Houston a space shuttle, Space Center CEO William Harris says the city is far more ready than it was a decade ago.

Just as Southern California welcomes the Space Shuttle Endeavour to one of its museums, the factories where the Space Shuttles and ApolloSpace Craft were built are being torn down with little fanfare.

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and send it to Houston for display. NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery ...

Crowds gathered along the streets of Downey on Thursday to catch sight of a full-size original space shuttle prototype named the “Inspiration” being transported. The model was built in 1972 as ...

HOUSTON — Texas U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on Thursday filed new legislation aimed at bringing the Space Shuttle Discovery home to the Houston area from Virginia. The bill ...

the world’s first reusable spacecraft – and the most complex spacecraft ever built – was launched into orbit by the US. STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s ...

Since 2012, the space shuttle Discovery has been the centerpiece of the James ... enclosed barge to be designed and built. "In an open barge, it wouldn't survive the trip," Jenkins said, "and in an ...