The shuttle even did a promotional tour of the area, flying into the Central Coast base on the back of a Boeing 747.

As competition in the new space race ramps up with China, the United States is preparing to deorbit the International Space ...

Blue Origin's massive New Glenn rocket comes in at a towering 320 feet tall — which is equivalent to a 32-story skyscraper.

On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle program.

One shuttle’s name even made reference to the television spacecraft, Enterprise. The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983. Tony Hertz Telegram ...

A new documentary focuses more on how Christa McAuliffe still inspires others as a teacher and less on her fate aboard the ...

Carter is hardly remembered as a champion of NASA. But he saved the space shuttle program, and his words that have been journeying aboard the Voyager probes for decades.

reaches just above New Glenn at 322 feet tall. If you're remembering back to NASA's legacy Space Shuttle, which launched from 1981 to 2011, that was a smaller rocket. It's dwarfed by these newcomers.

Time-lapse of Space Shuttle Endeavour stacked with an external tank and pair of solid rocket boosters for a exhibit at the California Science Center. Credit: California Science Center | time-lapse by ...

Nearly four decades later, a new documentary focuses on how she still inspires others and less on her fate aboard the space shuttle Challenger. "Christa: From Ordinary to Extraordinary" from New ...