NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — With the space shuttle Discovery safely back on the ground, the astronauts who repaired it in outer space and rode it 219 times around the Earth returned to Houston ...

COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry (Zhoushan) Co., Ltd CHI (Zhoushan), a key player in China's shipbuilding industry, has made remarkable strides in the highly competitive global shuttle tanker market, ...

Washington, DC – Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today announced a Full Committee hearing scheduled for Thursday, March 20, at 2:30 p.m.

Dr. LeConte Cathey discusses satellites, the space shuttle, and maintaining technology for space. Join Dr. LeConte Cathey from the University of South Carolina’s Department of Physics and Astronomy on ...

NASA managers who sent the shuttle back into space this week discovered it is still shedding big pieces of foam insulation on launch, and they suspended future flights. One chunk captured on camera ...

SPACE CENTER, Houston — NASA said Wednesday it is grounding future shuttle flights because foam debris that brought down Columbia is still a risk — and might have doomed Discovery if the big chunk of ...

Discovery lost foam debris, like Columbia, but no damage reported. SPACE CENTER, Houston -- NASA grounded future shuttle flights Wednesday because a big chunk of insulating foam flew off Discovery's ...

"The shuttle is like an old car," Chafer adds, "and at a certain point, you have to say, 'I can't keep spending money on this thing."' Dressler, of the Carnegie Institution, believes there's a future ...

SPACE CENTER, Houston – The shuttle Discovery, like Columbia, shed a large chunk of foam debris during liftoff that could have threatened the return of the seven astronauts, NASA said yesterday. While ...