NASA's Mission Control struggled with the question of whether to alert Columbia astronauts that the space shuttle was crippled on orbit as it began its doomed reentry. Wayne Hale, who later became ...

A famous NASA space shuttle is set to be moved out of the Smithsonian and to Texas after House Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s tax bill Thursday. The focal points of the so-called ...

After working to improve the booster design and creating new management practices to improve safety, NASA relaunched shuttle flights on Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center.

Florida (at left) and Texas dollar coins in the U.S. Mint's American Innovation series celebrating the space shuttle and Mission Control, respectively, to be released in 2025.

NASA's space shuttle Endeavour launched on Dec. 2, 1993 on the STS-61 mission. The goal was to fix the debilitated space telescope so it could finally start seeing straight.

The Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L mission was expected to deploy a communications satellite and study Halley’s Comet. McAuliffe was part of the Teacher in Space Project, which was meant to ...

“The space shuttle Discovery is not on loan to the Smithsonian from NASA,” the message read. “Ownership was transferred to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.” ...

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A famous NASA space shuttle is set to be moved out of the Smithsonian and to Texas after House Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s tax bill Thursday. The focal points of the so-called ...