The shuttle even did a promotional tour of the area, flying into the Central Coast base on the back of a Boeing 747.

US astronaut Leroy Chiao has been on three space missions and event spent months living in space, only to bizarrely see his ...

Trying to do stellar observations from Earth is like trying to do birdwatching from the bottom of a lake.” James B. Odom, ...

Only three countries in the world - United States, Russia, and China - have the ability to carry out docking of two ...

The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force ... where it will fly at least three missions before returning for the first Vandenberg launch. Between five and 10 annual ...

Hubble launched to space on April 24, 1990, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Since then, the space telescope has captured ...

The first RPM was performed by Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-114 mission in July 2005. It was executed by NASA’s first female commander, Eileen Collins. The RPM became a standard ...

On this date, Jan. 4, 1970, NASA officially canceled the Apollo 20 mission and transferred the Saturn V rocket that would have sent astronauts to the moon to the Skylab mission. NASA, in a ...

Shenzhou-19 crew members Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong installed space protection devices and conducted maintenance outside Tiangong.

payloads is shown lifting off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh on Monday. SpaDeX is a pioneering mission to establish India's capability in orbital docking. Photo courtesy Indian ...