The choice of the Boeing 747 as the primary aircraft to ferry the Space Shuttle orbiter was a decision rooted in the jumbo ...

Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...

NASA has released hi-def video of the shuttle Endeavour's final liftoff, from cameras mounted at various points on the outside of the vehicle. Your tax ...

Endeavour and its six astronauts showed up at the International Space Station on Wednesday with the most expensive payload ever carried by a shuttle, a $2 billion magnetic device that scientists hope ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The baby of NASA's space shuttle fleet is about to leave home - for good. At sunrise Monday, Endeavour will depart Kennedy Space Center for a museum in California, with a ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and send it to Houston for display. NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery may be ...

Before docking at the space station Friday afternoon, Endeavour will perform a backflip so the station crew can photograph its entire surface. NASA wants to see whether the shuttle suffered any ...

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A construction milestone was reached on Thursday, Oct. 10 at the California Science Center, as the highest beams were raised into place on a future exhibit hall that will house the upright, ...