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

A new documentary focuses more on how Christa McAuliffe still inspires others as a teacher and less on her fate aboard the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is nearing its 35th anniversary and skywatchers can celebrate the mighty telescope with a ...

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 ...

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

The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old, dating to the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 that carried Soviet ...

Hubble launched to space on April 24, 1990, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Since then, the space telescope has captured some of the most incredible images of the cosmos and made numerous ...

The year 2000 (Y2K) problem, also known as the millennium bug, was a major source of computer concerns 25 years ago. It was ...

Before Christa McAuliffe was an astronaut, she was a vibrant teacher in New England keen on showing her students how everyday people left extraordinary marks on U.S. history.

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

Two Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station have broken the world record for the longest single spacewalk, set more than two decades ago by the US space programme. The previous record ...