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

The milestones, heartbreaks, and discoveries that shaped NASA's 30-year shuttle program. NASA's storied space shuttle program experienced extraordinary triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies during ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

In addition to the 1968 launch of Apollo 5, the first Canadian woman launched into space onboard shuttle Discovery in 1992.

In this special Hubble image 23 years in the making, the sparkling spiral galaxy UGC 10043 reveals the secrets of its ...

That could soon change, thanks to a new NASA flagship telescope being designed to seek out strange new worlds that could ...

US astronaut Leroy Chiao has been on three space missions and event spent months living in space, only to bizarrely see his first UFO when he was back home on Earth ...

These are the voyages of the space shuttle Enterprise, boldly renamed by former President Gerald Ford after a massive ...

Construction on Endeavour commenced in 1987, using spare parts from Discovery and Atlantis. Final assembly finished in July 1990, and the shuttle was shipped to the Kennedy Space Center in May ...

NASA will observe its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday, Jan. 23, honoring the members of the NASA family who lost their ...

The Space Shuttle Columbia and Space Shuttle Challenger Memorials are seen after a wreath laying ceremony that was part of ...