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

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, ...

Endeavour flew 25 missions between 1992 and 2011, when NASA’s shuttle program ended. The Space Shuttle Endeavour is seen here being installed on the site of the future Samuel Oschin Air and ...

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 ...

NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams — who are stuck in space due to mechanical issues with their shuttle — shared that they are still planning to vote in the upcoming ...

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, ...

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 .

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 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.