A Long Island kid who loved Charlie Brown and the New York Mets would one day repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

After Challenger shattered NASA's ambitions, a radical plan emerged to strip the Space Shuttle down to a raw cargo hauler ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Space Shuttle Discovery pictured at the 6th meeting of the National Space Council on "Leading the Next Frontier" at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The space shuttle Discovery arrives for its final destination at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center in 2012. The aircraft used to ...

NASA's fleet of Space Shuttles could survive challenging solar conditions, but needed a boost to get around on Earth. Here's how a pair of 747s helped.

When I was an aerospace engineer working on the NASA Space Shuttle Program, trust was mission-critical. Every bolt, every line of code, every system had to be validated and tested carefully, or the ...

NASA has selected a yet-to-be-named Space Shuttle to move to Houston, conceding to a long-running bid by Texas senators to house one of the iconic vehicles. If the chosen vehicle is Discovery—which it ...

Veteran astronaut John Young of Orlando and rookie Bob Crippen flew Columbia into orbit on its second launch attempt, ending ...

NASA is preparing to enter a new era of Moon and Mars exploration. Before it does, the agency is overdue for some remodeling of its facilities. Two historic test stands at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight ...

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