A collection of more than 50 pieces of memorabilia previously owned by Sally Ride, the first American woman to reach space, ...

Moving Discovery was the goal of legislation brought earlier this year by Texas Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, ...

At a time when money is too tight for NASA’s science exploration endeavors, Texas senators are willing to pour millions into ...

NASA astronaut Sally Ride became America's first woman in space after she and four colleagues blasted off on the space shuttle Challenger for the STS-7 mission. The astronauts spent 6 days in space ...

A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with ...

Jan. 28, 1986, was the day NASA’s carefully cultivated image literally blew up at 46,000 feet.

BBC World Service and BBC Sounds have announced their multi-award winning podcast 13 Minutes To The Moon is to return with a ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

There are about three Space Shuttle orbiters currently in operation - Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, which are all ...

From the world watching in horror as the Challenger space shuttle exploded to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that upended ...

NASA and Northrop Grumman successfully tested the most powerful segmented solid rocket motor ever created at Promontory Point ...

Sally Ride was the first American woman in space, and when she died in 2012, her obituary publicly revealed that she was gay. KCRW hears from her partner Tam O’Shaughnessy, plus the director of the ...