Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 16, 2003, a dinner-plate sized piece of insulating foam tore off the space shuttle ...

B—but it can rapidly change orbits, deploy payloads, or conduct on-orbit servicing, giving it clear intelligence or ...

You could say it’s “atmospheric fun”, and you do not have to leave Earth. Katy Compton from the Mulva Cultural Center discusses the current exhibit, open to the public, ...

Following a launch scrub a week earlier, space shuttle Columbia took to the skies on Nov. 12, 1981, for its second trip into space. Astronauts Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly rode the reusable, ...

American space company Sierra Space revealed details on some of the most recent tests the Dream Chaser spaceplane went ...

A former NASA astronaut turned US senator has joined with other lawmakers to insist that his two rides to space remain on display in the Smithsonian. “Why should hundreds of millions of taxpayer ...

Astronaut John Herrington, who spent his boyhood in Colorado Springs, works to inspire Native youth to become more involved ...

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 ...

BEIJING -- China's defunct and reportedly out-of-control Tiangong 1 space station is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere sometime this weekend. It poses only a slight risk to people and property ...