The Space Shuttle Discovery would move to Texas under President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” according to Sen. John Cornyn ...

The Space Shuttle was an engineering marvel that changed the face of space exploration, and understanding how it launched is ...

Despite the Johnson Space Center's central role in America's space program, no shuttle was sent to Space City. That decision ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

Moving Discovery was the goal of legislation brought earlier this year by Texas Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, ...

A provision in the budget bill passed by the Senate paves the way for Space Shuttle Discovery to be brought to Houston.

Roger Boisjoly, an engineer at Morton Thiokol, which manufactured the Space Shuttle SRBs, later told a hearing into the Challenger accident: "SRM 15 [STS 51-C] actually increased [our] concern ...

NASA's space shuttle was the world's first reusable spacecraft. It launched like a rocket and returned to Earth like a glider, landing like an airplane on a long concrete runway. It was designed ...

The space shuttle Endeavour will be displayed as if in launch ... Those two SRBs will weigh in at a total of a quarter million pounds ... transportation, and military tech. NASA. Science. Space.

The space shuttle program was marked by triumphs and failures, including the 2003 Columbia disaster. The tragedies left a lasting mark on the perception of risks in space.

A number of checks were performed on the ice prior to liftoff. Launch time was 11:38 a.m. and temperatures had risen to a chilly 36 degrees. Records later show the temperature near the right SRB ...

Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Solid Rocket Motors Arrive at California Science Center. Each measuring 116 feet in length, the SRMs completed a trek from the Mojave Air and Space port to the Science ...