WASHINGTON — The space shuttle Discovery, NASA's fleet leader and the world's most flown spacecraft, lifted off for the last time on Tuesday to be delivered to the Smithsonian for its permanent ...

Rehoming NASA's fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets of Los Angeles atop a mechanical transporter for three days and nights to ...

A bill introduced Thursday could help bring the Space Shuttle Discovery back home to Texas. READ MORE: <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/space-shuttle ...

But only two of the defense department’s corps of 27 shuttle payload specialists made it to orbit. NASA The giant gold and silver satellite glittered against the black sky as space shuttle ...

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...

How do you prepare the most storied space shuttle for a second life on Earth? Discovery, which set a record by flying 39 missions, cumulatively spent 365 days in space and traveled 148,221,675 miles.

(CNN)-- After several delays, NASA said Friday that space shuttle Discovery is scheduled for launch in five days. Commander Lee Archambault and his six crewmates are now scheduled to lift off to ...

On May 18, 2025, Lego will release the new Shuttle Carrier Aircraft kit that celebrates the storied space shuttle Enterprise ...

all 24,000 pounds of the Hubble Space Telescope were tucked away inside the Discovery space shuttle when it launched into space. Thirty-five years later, NASA says Hubble has proven to have ...