In the 1970s, NASA studied a passenger version of the Space Shuttle designed to move huge numbers of workers into orbit for ...

(Reuters) - U.S. space agency NASA is ending its shuttle program this summer after two more missions. Shuttle Endeavour is due to launch on Friday on a mission to deliver a high-profile physics ...

For millions of Americans, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11. On that chilly January day in 1986, ...

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a full size model space shuttle? While it never quite made it to space, the full-size original space shuttle prototype built in 1972 as part of Rockwell International's ...

A hydrogen gas leak again forced NASA to delay Wednesday's launch of the Endeavour, which is scheduled to carry Canadian astronaut Julie Payette to the International Space Station. It is the second ...

Noted author, poet, and NASA historian Bruce McCandless III ("Wonders All Around") grew up in close proximity to the thundering roar of Apollo-era rockets and the Space Shuttle Program as the son of ...

Richard Bartley Spangler, 63, devoted husband and exceptional father, passed away peacefully on Monday, April 20th, at home ...

The space shuttle system has been modified many times since the first launch of space shuttle Columbia in 1981. During the 1980s, major upgrade programs were established to respond to problems and ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. space agency NASA is ending its shuttle program this summer after two more missions. The shuttle Endeavour blasted off on Monday on a mission to deliver a high-profile physics ...