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 ...

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

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

Yes, the Buzz Lightyear, Pixar's toy spaceman extraordinaire, launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, spent 15 months on the International Space Station, and came back as one of the longest-s ...

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 ...

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

Not only does this epic set let you recreate your very own scale model of the Space Shuttle Discovery, it also comes with a Hubble Telescope. Price: $199.99 / £169.99 Model number: 10283 Number ...

McAuliffe and the Challenger crew died Jan. 28, 1986, when the Challenger space shuttle exploded shortly ... director of the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center. “That's because she had ...

The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983. Tony Hertz Telegram-Tribune file After test glide and landings upon release from aircraft in 1977 ...

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 ...