The milestones, heartbreaks, and discoveries that shaped NASA's 30-year shuttle program. NASA's storied space shuttle program experienced extraordinary triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies during ...

On Friday, Leandro Lencina-Medina, an 8-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, received a custom-made Space Shuttle-inspired wheelchair enclosure, decorated with NASA details, lights and stickers.

STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...