“Star Trek” began as a television series but grew into a cultural phenomenon. When it premiered in 1966, no one could have ...

A detailed animated look at the process of getting the Space Shuttle into Earth orbit, with most operations shown at Kennedy ...

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The space shuttle era was a time of many firsts for space exploration. Most prominently, it marked the regular usage of the first reusable spacecraft to carry humans into low Earth orbit. In its ...

A new family destination called Inspiration Space Port is planned for St. Cloud, featuring a full-scale shuttle mock-up and ...

Twenty years ago today, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on STS-115, the first ...

The Space Shuttle was NASA’s workhorse for 30 years. But despite all its features, it had some fatal flaws. In 1972, Apollo 17 carried the last batch of astronauts to the lunar surface. But during ...

In April 1981, John Young — America’s premier astronaut and one of only 12 people to ever walk on the Moon — was training with co-pilot Bob Crippen for STS-1, the maiden voyage of space shuttle ...

At a time when money is too tight for NASA’s science exploration endeavors, Texas senators are willing to pour millions into a risky process to relocate the Space Shuttle to Houston under the ...

The Pentagon has signed an agreement with Sierra Space, developer of the Dream Chaser shuttle, to develop the glide-like spacecraft for military transport missions. The goal is to develop a craft that ...

Rowland White has written four books about aerospace history. His latest is Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Men Who Flew Her.