The third volume examines the flight campaign, beginning before the first launch, STS-1 ... reasonably want," said Jenkins. "Space Shuttle: Developing an Icon" is primarily meant to be a reference ...

Marc Garneau, Canada's first astronaut, passed away this week at the age of 76. Quirks and Quarks host Bob McDonald reflects ...

[Photos: Shuttle Bids Farewell to Space Station] With NASA's reusable space plane fleet retiring, here is a by-the-numbers look at the iconic 30-year spaceflight icon: If you're enjoying this ...

As India prepares to send Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla into space aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon, a new chapter in the ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

LEGO has launched its latest Icon set – the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ... to transport space shuttles between landing sites, launch complexes, and exhibition locations. These aircraft ...

The journey to the moon began here in Brevard − in a building that's become an icon ... the Space Shuttle program when it came to bringing the reusable shuttle into a vertical launch position ...

“They scrubbed six times on his launch. And on one of my launches, we scrubbed six times.” Selected as an astronaut in 1987, Bowersox flew five times on the space shuttle and once on a ...

AP At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe sat with her six fellow astronauts ahead of the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger from Kennedy Space ...