NASA has put the brakes on a politically charged plan to uproot Space Shuttle Discovery from its longtime home at the ...

Jared Isaacman, the new NASA administrator, signaled he was open to offering other spacecraft to Texas instead of the ...

The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center is one part of McAuliffe's legacy. Jeanne Gerulskis, former executive director of the ...

A controversial plan to relocate Space Shuttle Discovery moved forward, and critics argued it was dumb, destructive, and ...

Space Shuttle Discovery on display at the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center - Vlad G/Shutterstock NASA Administrator Jared ...

The shuttle Discovery — NASA's most-flown space plane — will take one last flight this week, but will never leave the planet again. The shuttle's final mission is a piggyback ride atop a jumbo jet so ...

CHANTILLY, Va. - Efforts to move the space shuttle "Discovery" from Northern Virginia to Texas have hit a roadblock. So, it looks like the shuttle will stay in the DMV — at least for now. This means ...

This NASA image shows (from left) cosmonaut Valery I. Tokarev, astronaut William S. (Bill) McArthur, Jr., both Expedition Eight flight engineers; and astronaut C. Michael Foale, mission commander, ...

Plans to house the space shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center have received a major lift with a donation from a late businessman’s foundation, the Los Angeles Times reports. At the ...

HOUSTON — A familiar voice echoed through history with the words, "3, 2, 1… and liftoff of the shuttle Discovery and the Hubble Telescope." That proud moment marked one of NASA’s most iconic ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most ...