The crew of Space Shuttle Discovery’s Return to Flight mission (STS-114) will return to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at 11:30 a.m. EDT Friday, July 22. The seven astronauts, led by Commander ...

Preparations for the inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia passed a major milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 29, 1980, with the rollout of the vehicle stack from the Vehicle ...

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation has announced that veteran NASA astronauts Tom Akers and Joe Tanner will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame® at the annual induction ceremony on May ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is a masterwork of engineering and human ingenuity. Hubble is comparable in size and weight to a large school bus, but its contributions to science and astronomy could fill ...

That kind of strong leadership and great teamwork are the real safety systems of spaceflight.

it is with deep, heartfelt sorrow. I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

Retired Canadian Space Agency astronaut Marc Garneau describes the time he picked up a spinning satellite in space known as Spartan 207. Garneau retrieved the satellite in May 1996 during space ...