The U.S. military's mini space shuttle has returned to Earth after ... long with a wingspan of almost 15 feet (4.5 meters). They take off vertically like rockets but land horizontally like planes ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz want to relocate space shuttle Discovery to Houston. It will be more challenging than when the shuttle program ended.

The Hubble Space Telescope, a NASA and ESA project, was launched on April 24, 1990, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. The ...

If it lands Vandenburg Air Force Base in California then it will need to be flown across the United States ... space shuttle is taken to the Orbital Processing Facility (OPF) where maintenance ...

Spacewalking astronauts repaired and upgraded the famed Hubble Telescope during five missions from 1993 to 2009. Here's a ...

Holding a daisy to the sky, songstress Katy Perry emerged from a Blue Origin space shuttle before falling to her knees and ...

which lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, is on a 14-day mission to deliver supplies needed to expand the International Space Station. NASA officials noticed the bat before shuttle's ...

It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off. The crew had been taken twenty stories up the launch tower in a lift, with all seven members dressed in their ...

When the outer portion of a tile gets hot, the heat takes a long time to work its way down through the rest of the tile to the shuttle’s skin ... tiles or shake them off. To keep them in ...

and with thoughts about the nature of human risk-taking in general, and especially in space. National Geographic released “Sally” about Sally Ride, the first American woman to blast off into ...