Nearly 20 years ago, an iconic part of the Star Wars sci-fi film franchise made a trip aboard NASA's Space Shuttle for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The tug-of-war over space shuttle Discovery is becoming more volatile. Discovery — the crown jewel of the Smithsonian ...

It's been 14 years since the Space Shuttle Endeavour flew its final mission. With construction of the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center nearing completion, the shuttle now has a permanent home in Los ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

(CNN) - Wednesday marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle explosion. It was a moment of collective grief on Jan. 28, 1986, when the space shuttle exploded during a live broadcast.

Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven astronauts were lost after the shuttle broke apart during reentry. Columbia was just 16 minutes from landing at the Kennedy Space Center, when Mission ...

Jan. 28, 1986, 7 spacefarers were killed when shuttle Challenger exploded midair after launching from Kennedy Space Center in ...

On their first date, Joe Stief and his now wife, Jess, talked about aerospace. They still discuss the topic every day. Though Stief is a healthcare investor and Jess a US Space Force officer, the ...

One of NASA's last remaining structures unique to supporting the space shuttle is no more. The Mate-Demate Device (MDD), which for 35 years was used at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to mount and remove ...

This collection consists of the following twenty-two 16mm films relating to the Space Shuttle Enterprise OV-101: 747/F-104 Shuttle Orbiter Launch Simulation; Orbiter/747 Separation (Wind ...