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

Blue Origin's massive New Glenn rocket comes in at a towering 320 feet tall — which is equivalent to a 32-story skyscraper.

On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle program.

As competition in the new space race ramps up with China, the United States is preparing to deorbit the International Space ...

President Jimmy Carter's impact on the U.S. space program honored in Florida where so many of the nation's space ambitions ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is on the cusp of a significant achievement with its SpaDeX mission, scheduled ...

Kraft recalls laying bare the budget jeopardy faced by the shuttle. “We were totally incapable of meeting any sort of flight ...

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

NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to ever set foot on the moon. Instead of ...

McAuliffe taught that class, too. Bleier was a sixth-grader when she watched the space shuttle launch on television. She recalled how devastating it was. "I don't want to watch the shuttle blow up ...

Florida’s space industry seemed destined for a sad ending when NASA grounded the space shuttle mission in 2011 and Atlantis ...