In 1962, NASA’s Flight Research Center in California approved the construction of a prototype lifting body aircraft, which became the M2-F1, also known as the “ Flying Bathtub .” The designation is ...

Preparations for the inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia passed a major milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 29, 1980, with the rollout of the vehicle stack from the Vehicle ...

"Chandra is still going strong, and still so powerful that it can read a stop sign from 12 miles away." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Bernard Harris and Peggy Whitson were inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 31 at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Harris, the first African American to perform a spacewalk, flew on two ...

As NASA prepares for its first space shuttle launching since the Columbia disaster, the question on everyone's lips is this one: Is the shuttle safe? My answer, as the former chairman of the NASA ...

HOUSTON – NASA astronaut and Steamboat Springs, Colo., native Steven R. Swanson, a crew member of the Space Shuttle Atlantis’ STS-117 mission, is available for interviews by satellite Jan. 17. The STS ...

Engle is recorded as the sixth person to fly a suborbital flight and 104th to enter orbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Joe ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Sierra Space Corporation have developed a new heat shield based on venerable 1980s Space Shuttle technology to protect the next generation of reusable spacecraft from ...

CAPE CANAVERAL ” Discovery and seven astronauts blasted into orbit Tuesday on America’s first manned space shot since the 2003 Columbia disaster, ending a painful, 2 1/2-year shutdown devoted to ...

Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASAs Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space ...

Two veteran astronauts were inducted May 31 into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame — and one of them had to miss the induction ceremony as she's preparing to launch on yet another mission. Organized by ...