In a letter to Congress, museum officials have warned the shuttle may need to be partially disassembled in order to be ...

Lawmakers pushing to move the iconic spacecraft from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to Texas just got the Department of ...

Discovery, the showpiece of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space ...

Moving the Discovery from Virginia to Texas could be risky for the fragile craft. After the space shuttle Discovery made its ...

"As the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle, I worked very hard at that because I didn't want people to say, 'Oh look, the ...

Being in orbit is great. Not so much if you want a carbonated beverage Andrew J. Ross These two cola cans—which were customized for use aboard the space shuttle—are in the permanent collection of the ...

Find out how NASA’s astronaut selection process has evolved. Diane Tedeschi Marsha Ivins (at Florida's Kennedy Space Center in 1995) flew on five space shuttle missions, logging more than 1,300 hours ...

The Terre Haute Children’s Museum will celebrate the wonder of outer space with a Celebration of Space Exploration Day on ...

When Space Shuttle Discovery touched down for the last time at Kennedy Space Center Runway 15 on March 9, 2011, it brought to an end a 27-year career of spaceflight.

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has captured a striking new image of massive, wind-carved sand formations known as "megaripples" during its latest exploration stop on the Red Planet. The photo, taken on Aug ...

The vast majority of NASA's employees could be furloughed and all but its most critical operations – including management of the International Space Station – are likely to be paused. Many NASA ...