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

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

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

A new environmental study is intended to support the continued increase of SpaceX launches from a California spaceport, but ...

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

By many accounts of those who served at NASA during Jimmy Carter's administration, he was viewed as the least supportive of U ...

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

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

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

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

If you're remembering back to NASA's legacy Space Shuttle, which launched from 1981 to 2011, that was a smaller rocket. It's dwarfed by these newcomers. According to NASA, it stood at only 184 ...