On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. The space shuttle Columbia safely touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

A space shuttle mock-up sits in a maintanance yard in The City of Downey, awaiting its moment. The Columbia Memorial Space Center may soon house the first Space Shuttle ever built, but for now, the ...

The Space Shuttle was and forever will be a very special vehicle in the history of space exploration. Over the course of three decades starting in 1981, the small fleet of spaceplanes took to the sky ...

For millions of Americans, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11. On that chilly January day in 1986, ...

Forty years ago, the NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all 7 crew members. Among the seven crew members were 5 NASA astronauts, as well as a payload specialist ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...