Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...
From 1981 to 2011, the space shuttle flew 135 missions and carried 355 people into space. It launched satellites. It deployed (then later fixed) the Hubble Telescope. It was instrumental in building ...
On Feb. 1, 2003, NASA was once again dealing with tragedy when Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven astronauts were ...
How big is the shuttle? The shuttle measures 122.2 feet long, 56.67 feet high, with wingspan of 78.06 feet. The height of the full shuttle stack, including the external fuel tank, is 184.2 feet. Gross ...
The final journey for the last space shuttle ever built is complete. Set against the black backdrop of the night sky, a crane hoisted a white shrink-wrapped Endeavour 200 feet overhead before gently ...
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman appeared to suggest that space shuttle Discovery may not be relocated to Houston's Johnson ...
The space shuttle Endeavour began the first part of its journey to its final resting place Thursday, an effort more than a decade in the making after arriving at the California Science Center museum ...