However, Space.com reports that NASA and the Smithsonian have concluded that the cost just to move the shuttle would be at ...

That kind of strong leadership and great teamwork are the real safety systems of spaceflight.

The United States once poured money and political capital into a spaceplane concept that promised to take off from a runway, reach orbit in a single leap, and slash the cost of spaceflight. Instead of ...

Thirty years of flight by NASA's space shuttles will end once Atlantis returns home from this last mission. The space agency will be looking to deeper space exploration, but the future is still ...

Texas lawmakers have demanded the Discovery shuttle be moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but daunting technical challenges remain—and Virginia officials have dug in against the move. The ...

The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and landing on July 21, 2011. China and Russia are the only other countries to have independent ...

Space to Grow argues that political inefficiencies stunted NASA’s innovation, while SpaceX’s market-driven model slashed costs by more than 90 percent, launching a new era of commercial exploration.

When I broke into journalism years ago as a fledgling Whittier-based high school sports reporter, one of my favorite side hobbies was asking locals what made their city famous. Downey was always an ...