It’s been 40 years since the tragic Space Shuttle Challenger launch.

NASA has put the brakes on a politically charged plan to uproot Space Shuttle Discovery from its longtime home at the Smithsonian’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. The agency’s new leadership ...

The 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster cast a shadow over NASA's annual Day of Remembrance event inside the Space ...

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...

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Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), one of the architects of the Discovery moving plan, said that Isaacman is on board. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...