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 ...

Congress authorized NASA to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger ... STS-89's crew members were the first to reach Mir in a shuttle other than Atlantis. Building the International Space Station ...

5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build ... The final launch of the space shuttle program came on July 8, 2011, when Atlantis – now housed at the ...

In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...

R: The Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise inside of Marshall Space Flight Center's Dynamic Test Stand for Mated Vertical Ground Vibration tests (MVGVT). Images: NASA These are the voyages of the space ...

in a shot taken by an American Space Shuttle astronaut. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images) Yet NASA Deputy Inspector General George Scott warned in a report last year that with the NASA-Space ...

A NASA astronaut who almost died in space has revealed some of the biggest lessons ... "Because of the flawless launch, docking, undocking, and landing of the Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-84) ...

As we approach 2025, major players in space exploration including NASA, SpaceX and Blue Origin are gearing up for everything from lunar exploration to Mars missions. Here are the most notable ...

Florida’s space industry seemed destined for a sad ending when NASA grounded the space shuttle mission in 2011 and Atlantis arrived home to Florida for retirement. But that’s not what happened.

So when Frosch went to the White House to meet with the president and said NASA didn’t have the money to finish the space shuttle, the administrator got a response he did not expect ...

Florida preschoolers are eligible to receive free admission to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex for the rest of 2025. The Junior Space Explorer Pass is for Florida residents age 5 or younger.

Jan. 17, 2025 — The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding ...