China's new Haolong space cargo shuttle. See it launch in this animation. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central ...

The roar of rocket engines, the trembling earth beneath your feet, and a pillar of fire slicing through the sky—few human ...

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

The City of Downey, California began relocating "Inspiration." The new home of NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour, the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, has reached new heights and the ...

Since 2012, the space shuttle Discovery has been the centerpiece ... its winged orbiters to museums in California, Florida, New York and Virginia. While Atlantis, Endeavour and the prototype ...

They also replaced Hubble's Power Control Unit (PCU) and added a new cooling system to increase the lifespan of NICMOS. Space shuttle Atlantis launched on May 11, 2009, carrying two new ...

Blue Origin's all-female 11-minute flight on April 14 reminds us that there's a long line of women who have been making ...

That won’t be an issue on the new spacecraft unless there’s a problem—they’ll use satellite relays to keep in touch, just as the space shuttle did. There’s generally a buddy system in ...

His latest is Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Men Who Flew Her. White’s book provides a detailed account of STS-1 ...

NEW ADVANCEMENTS IN SPACE TRAVEL ARE ON THE ... James Newman flew on four NASA space shuttle missions. Newman knew he wanted to work for NASA when he was a kid in the late 1960s.

HOUSTON — Texas U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on Thursday filed new legislation aimed at bringing the Space Shuttle Discovery home to the Houston area from Virginia. The bill ...