To get ready for Endeavour's grand move, crews will begin installation of the base of the shuttle's full stack on July 20 at the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.

Once complete — and the rest of the museum is constructed in the coming years — L.A. will be home to the only retired space shuttle displayed in a full-stack arrangement as if ready for launch.

Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-2) prepares for an unpowered but smooth landing on the desert area of Edwards Air Force Base in California in 1981. NASA. Planetary scientist and pilot Tom Jones had a ...

A nearly month-long mission is ready to lift off, with preparations being made at the Kennedy Center. To be clear, not NASA's Kennedy Space Center, but the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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 ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX pushed one day for weather and has delayed again the next Falcon Heavy launch of a secretive spacecraft that’s a fourth the size of the space shuttle.

Space Shuttle Endeavour Lifted Into Launch Position at California Science Center. A 450-foot crane lifted the 170,000-pound orbiter into the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center in downtown Los Angeles.

Upgrades at SpaceX's most-used launch pad in Florida got a trial run Thursday with the liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon cargo ship heading for the International Space Station.

Mission: Challenger’s crew made the first shuttle night launch and landing, deployed the INSAT-1B communications satellite, and tested the Canadian RMS by maneuvering a 7,350-pound (3,333 ...

On April 14, Blue Origin plans to launch a space flight with a crew that includes the singer behind the 2010 hit "Firework." But we can think of many other artists who deserve to be among the stars.

Forget the launch pad: A Space Coast company wants to accelerate its rare supersonic aircraft to twice the speed of sound, climb up to 45,000 feet, and fire wing-mounted rockets up into low-Earth ...

After test glide and landings upon release from aircraft in 1977, the Space Shuttle began orbital flights in April 1981. The shuttle would launch 135 times from Florida — but only 133 would land ...