In 1971, Utah lawmakers passed a proposal to create a “Space Port Committee.” The group of business, political leaders, scientists and engineers was to make the state’s best argument for becoming the ...

Kraft recalls laying bare the budget jeopardy faced by the shuttle. “We were totally incapable of meeting any sort of flight ...

These are the voyages of the space shuttle Enterprise, boldly renamed by former President Gerald Ford after a massive ...

The space shuttle and International Space Station are set to launch onto coins to celebrate advancements made by Texas and ...

The milestones, heartbreaks, and discoveries that shaped NASA's 30-year shuttle program. NASA's storied space shuttle program experienced extraordinary triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies during ...

For many years NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, were the only spacefaring entities in the world. The Chinese ...

Endeavor soared around the planet on its way to the shuttle program's penultimate mission to the Russian Mir Space Station.

Nelson and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy left the agency on Monday (Jan. 20), the day that Donald Trump began his ...

In addition to the 1968 launch of Apollo 5, the first Canadian woman launched into space onboard shuttle Discovery in 1992.

THE NEW SHUTTLE WAS DELAYED AND OVER BUDGET WITHOUT EXTRA FUNDING, THE PROGRAM WAS LIKELY TO FAIL. YET IT WAS CARTER WHO ULTIMATELY SAVED THE SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM BY GIVING NASA THE RESOURCES ...