It was not really until the climax of the Space Race that the US gained the upper hand against the USSR in space exploration. When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969, America was finally ...

NASA's space shuttle was a large, heavy vehicle, and needed an even larger, heavier low-wing aircraft to transport it across ...

Space exploration has changed how we look at the universe, but it's costly, and some of the most iconic NASA missions are ...

It was not really until the climax of the Space Race that the US gained the upper hand against the USSR in space exploration.

Kalpana Chawla embarked on her maiden space mission aboard Nasa’s Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-87) on 1997. Chawla played a ...

The Russell C. Davis Planetarium in Jackson, Mississippi, has been renamed the McNair–Davis Planetarium. The new name honors ...

Maxar Technologies Rebrands to Vantor and Lanteris. So, Maxar Technologies is no more. It’s a big change, and honestly, it’s ...

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space ...

The soon-to-be Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will double the amount of exhibit space at the California Science Center.

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, ...

The roots of material science in space began in the mid-20th century during the dawn of the space race. Image Credit: Indometeus/Wikimedia Commons To begin with, rockets, space shuttles, and ...