Two senators earmarked $85 million for the move to Houston—but safely shipping an 86-ton shuttle orbiter cross-country could ...

NEW YORK — For the first time in history, a space shuttle is landing aboard an aircraft carrier, but instead of catching an arresting wire at high speed, the winged orbiter will be slowly lowered onto ...

NEW YORK — New York City, meet space shuttle Enterprise. On Thursday (July 19), the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on Manhattan's west side opened its new "Space Shuttle Pavilion" to the public, ...

‘Spacewoman’ chronicles how Collins persevered against odds to become the first female space shuttle pilot and commander. The ...

A new front has opened in the battle over space shuttle Discovery, and the fight has made its way to the Justice Department. The two Texas Senators trying to mandate the relocation of Discovery from ...

NASA astronauts Tom Akers and Joe Tanner, both four-time space shuttle veterans, and two of the few people to ever touch the Hubble telescope in space, were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of ...

Space shuttle Enterprise, NASA's retired prototype orbiter, will reopen on public display July 10, just shy of one year since its exhibit in New York first opened. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The space shuttle Discovery arrives for its final destination at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center in 2012. The aircraft used to ...

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 ...

NASA has clarified that any attempt to move the Discovery space shuttle from Virginia to Texas could not involve its disassembly—more or less making the project impossible. Texas lawmakers haven’t ...

A new space shuttle exhibit has opened at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Visitors may “climb aboard” the mock-up of the shuttle to see a Crew Compartment Trainer hundreds of astronauts ...