Bolden reminds the audience that it was at this point of the flight that the space shuttle Challenger was lost in 1986. “This is always a thoughtful moment,” he says. For the ride itself ...

Last August, at a ceremony at the Johnson Space ... shuttle missions, left for a dream project: to develop an electric airplane. Rick “C.J.” Sturckow, a four-mission veteran, left last spring ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...