When Space Shuttle Discovery touched down for the last time at Kennedy Space Center Runway 15 on March 9, 2011, it brought to an end a 27-year career of spaceflight. Discovery flew to space 39 times, ...

Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

Using a high-energy X-ray system, they turned the satellite effectively transparent, revealing fuel and gas tanks, hidden ...

The chief investigator of the Columbia disaster testified yesterday that NASA officials gravely erred by refusing to seek photographs of the damaged space shuttle in orbit and that a rescue mission ...

After the International Space Station is decommissioned, China and possibly Russia will have active space stations in low Earth orbit. America will not.

In 2010, NASA retired four space shuttles, sending them across the United States as a historical reminder of the nation's space history. But none remain in Houston, where NASA’s Johnson Space Center ...

Former ISS Program Manager Michael Suffredini reviews the creation of the International Space Station, detailing assembly, ...

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), one of the architects of the Discovery moving plan, said that Isaacman is on board.

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A computer-generated image of the football-field-sized International Space Station. Editor at Large The last time no representative of the human race was in space Bill Clinton was in his final year in ...