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 Assembly Building (VAB) to its seaside Launch Pad 39A.

We're revisiting live broadcasts from Cape Canaveral, with one of the local reporters who covered the launch in real time.

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

This video explores the intricate process of getting the Space Shuttle into orbit, primarily taking place at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It covers the various stages involved, notable spacecraft,

NASA has put off the planned launch of its next-generation Orion spacecraft for a year, a setback to efforts to fly a successor to its aging space shuttles, the space agency announced Monday. "September 2014 is when we are saying we will launch the first crew on the Orion,