There is a battle brewing over ownership of a retired NASA space shuttle. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law by ...

On July 8, 2011, the space shuttle Atlantis launched on its final mission. Atlantis was the last of NASA's space shuttles to fly into space. It went on 33 missions since 1985, ferrying astronauts to ...

On Wednesday, four space explorers from four countries launched on a brand new SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, and as the first "Dragon riders" for this vehicle, the Axiom ...

Rakesh Sharma and Shubhanshu Shukla are the only Indian citizens on this list, representing ISRO and the Indian Air Force. The others are of Indian descent but held US citizenship before or during ...

These are the voyages of the space shuttle Enterprise, boldly renamed by former President Gerald Ford after a massive letter-writing campaign from Star Trek fans.

After all, it is the name behind the Space Shuttle as we ended up having it, and the B-1 Lancer nuclear bomber. Before rising to fame, though, the company came up with this weird shuttle design ...

For the task of designing a Space Shuttle transporter, Conroy imagined using the seriously chopped fuselages of two Boeing B-52 Stratofortress nuclear bombers, joined together in such a way as to ...

ATLAS-1 launched to space on March 24, 1992. Thirty years later, this predecessor spacelab to the ISS still holds interest for scientists here on Earth.

Sunday marks the 38th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle explosion, a disaster that killed seven people 73 seconds after launch.

A new book details how design challenges, budget constraints and political considerations set the Space Shuttle up for disaster.

Karol Bobko, an Air Force pilot who joined NASA as an astronaut in 1969 and then waited 14 years before going into space, piloting the first voyage of the shuttle Challenger nearly three years ...

The name was changed and the Space Shuttle Enterprise rolled off the manufacturing site in 1976 with Gene Roddenberry and the Original Series cast in attendance, according to NASA records.