Eileen Collins reflects on her time as the first female not only to pilot but also command a spacecraft. Here's her experience during NASA's shuttle days.

On Sept. 26, 2025, one person was killed and several injured in an early morning 4-vehicle traffic crash near Kennedy Space ...

It won’t have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force hitched a ride on SpaceX to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft — which looks like a miniature space shuttle — back for a long-duration mission to ...

Troopers were on scene of an early morning fatal crash near NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The crash involved four vehicles, and three people were taken to local hospitals, according to the Florida ...

When the Space Shuttle lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in 1981, it was the first reusable spacecraft. The massive orange external fuel tank was the major component designed to be destroyed on ...

A former NASA astronaut turned US senator has joined with other lawmakers to insist that his two rides to space remain on display in the Smithsonian. “Why should hundreds of millions of taxpayer ...

Discovery has been on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum for more than a decade. Now, Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn want to bring it to Texas. reading time 3 minutes The ...

"We believe in a future where this is the engine powering everything..." Pam Melroy, one of only two women to ever command a NASA space shuttle, is channeling her decades of experience across the U.S.

In 1984, with a 14-month-old at home, the astronaut took off on the Space Shuttle Discovery – now she shares her story ...