Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...

It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which ...

The first shuttle mission of 1995, STS-63 included several historic firsts. As part of Phase 1 of the International Space ...

Pete James has seen a lot in two decades as a business jet pilot — but a flight this week over North Carolina featured something a bit extra: what he described as a glow-in-the-dark “jellyfish ...

Discovery returned NASA to space on Sept ... determined that a piece of foam insulation had struck the shuttle’s left wing during launch, causing critical damage that ultimately led to the ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy ...

The STS-63 mission, more popularly dubbed as the near-Mir mission, was a successful mission that spanned from February 3-11, ...

Perhaps the best set on the market currently is the huge and realistic Artemis Space Launch System ... your very own scale model of the Space Shuttle Discovery, it also comes with a Hubble ...

Seventy-three seconds into the launch, the shuttle broke apart ... all of the people who died in the pursuit of space exploration and discovery. As we reflect on the Challenger mission 39 years ...

Classrooms across America watched the launch. The shuttle was supposed to ... 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center. Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another ...