“Once we get to orbit, the closest analogy is probably the Space Shuttle,” Holder says. “We have a smaller bay, but we can perform many of the same types of missions. And when we fly ...

The image was taken by the DSCOVR spacecraft about a million miles away from Earth. Like a pen blew up all over Earth. 13.In ...

A Chinese “reusable experimental spacecraft” believed to be the country’s secretive space plane has landed back on Earth ...

Returning Pathfinder to the shuttle stack after an extensive restoration process is a major milestone.' Pathfinder is back in its "space," three and a half years after it "landed" on Earth.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The Pathfinder Shuttle will return atop the external tank at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center after restoration. The shuttle will take around three days to reinstall at ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is launching to the International Space Station for his fourth trip to space, and he and two ...

The entire mission lasted 208 minutes, and the Buran would never fly again. When people think of a space shuttle they think of the American version – the space shuttle, or orbiter ...

The eventual decision to send Williams and Wilmore home on the SpaceX Crew-9 mission, which NASA announced over the weekend, was informed by lessons from the agency's two space shuttle disasters.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the decision was driven by the agency’s commitment to safety, especially after the disasters that beset the space shuttle program. The crew is expected to ...

Christa McAuliffe is still a pioneer, decades after she was picked to become America’s first teacher in space. Now she's the ...

And after 1995, Soyuz cosmonauts began launching or landing on space shuttles and shuttle astronauts via Soyuz. Norm Thagard became the first American to launch and land in different ships ...

McAuliffe was 37 when she was killed, one of the seven crew members aboard the Challenger when the space shuttle broke apart ...