“We’re looking forward to coming home,” Commander Eileen Collins radioed to Mission Control upon crew wakeup at 8:30 p.m. EDT today. Collins and her crewmates immediately began preparing the orbiter ...

NASA today launches a series of events to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first space shuttle flight. On April 12, 1981, shuttle Columbia lifted off with Commander John Young and pilot Robert ...

Discovery and its crew of seven landed safely back to Earth on Tuesday, ending a 14-day test of space shuttle safety that was shadowed by the disaster two and a half years ago of the shuttle Columbia.

In the shadow of Cape Henry’s windswept dunes, where the Atlantic meets the Chesapeake Bay, a pivotal moment in America’s story unfolded on April 29, 1607. There, 104 English settlers, led by Rev.

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

Spectators on Saturday watched as Jacklyn, Blue Origin's rocket landing vessel, returned to Port Canaveral just as it left. New Glenn’s first-stage booster, called So You're Telling Me There's a ...