A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with ...

An X10 flare is described as as a severe event, according to NOAA. The most powerful flare ever measured was in 2003, which was recorded as an X28, according to NASA.

Each shuttle launch cost about $1.5 billion on average, according to a 2018 paper from a researcher at NASA’s Ames Research Center. That’s hundreds of millions of dollars more than what the ...

However, the real answer is that Congress mandated that NASA continue to use space shuttle main engines as part of the SLS rocket program. In 2010, ...

From the archives: Watch CBS News coverage of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on Feb. 1, 2003, in the video above. Twenty years ago this Wednesday — on Feb. 1, 2003, at 8:48:39 a.m. EST ...

A new flight plan has been filed for a NASA winged orbiter and its jumbo jet transport. The Lego Icons Shuttle Carrier Aircraft recreates the 747 and Enterprise.

A NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter re-enters the Earth's atmosphere at about 75 miles above sea level and speeds close to 17,500 mph. When slowing down to its landing speed of about 215 mph, ...

Seven astronauts died when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry on Feb. 1, 2003. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy looks back on the tragedy and how it shaped the agency.

The space shuttle program would go on to become one of NASA’s most celebrated. After 135 missions carrying more than 350 astronauts into orbit, the shuttles were retired in 2011 .

In 1983, he commanded a Challenger shuttle flight. After the 1986 disaster, he was charged with leading NASA’s return to space. By Richard Sandomir Richard Truly, a naval aviator and astronaut ...

The shuttle program was halted for nearly three years, until September 1988, and Space Shuttle Endeavour was built as a replacement for the lost craft. Launch of the Magellan Venus probe NASA ...

The space shuttle Discovery performs a 360-degree flip in 2009 in a handout image from NASA taken by the International Space Station's crew. Discovery operated from 1984 to 2011.