The space shuttle Discovery's flying days may be over, but a set of stunning new panoramic photos ensures that the space plane will remain fresh in people's minds for years to come.

But displaying an entire space shuttle requires a structure with an open interior, Rudolph said. “We didn’t think about doing it the easiest way to display this,” Rudolph said.

Much of the shuttle’s storied history was written in Houston, home to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. But today, Discovery rests ...

Take a rare glimpse inside the space shuttle Atlantis just before NASA powered it down forever in 2011. SPACE.com partner Robert Pearlman, editor of collectSPACE, snapped the photos.

The Space Shuttle Atlantis had a more traditional dashboard for its pilots to utilize. The Crew Dragon capsule replaces the knobs and switches with large touchscreens.

NEW YORK—The space shuttle Enterprise has been ensconced aboard the USS Intrepid for just over two years. ... The Intrepid's summer volunteers get a single tour of the interior as a perk.

A National Geographic documentary directed by Cristina Costantini explores Sally Ride's personal life with interviews from ...

The space shuttle program was marked by triumphs and failures, including the 2003 Columbia disaster. The tragedies left a lasting mark on the perception of risks in space.

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

Nicole Stott, a 1992 UCF graduate, flew twice on Space Shuttle Discovery — first on STS-128 in 2009 and then the orbiter’s final flight, STS-133, in 2011 — all the while spending 91 days in ...

Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-2) ... Rivers of 3,000-degree ionized plasma washed over the front windows, yet our cabin interior remained at about 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Third, ...

Each shuttle is covered by more than 24,000 of the six- by six-inch blocks. Most of the tiles are made of silica fibers, which are produced from high-grade sand. Silica is an excellent insulator ...