A custom-made version of a legendary pilot's watch orbited Earth on May 24, 1962. Now, you can own an upgraded reissue.

Mike Moses — who earned a Florida Tech master’s degree in space sciences in 1991 — delivered a spring commencement speech on ...

Students gathered around model ... Space Station. He also announced the shuttles would be retired from service. The space shuttle flight program came to a close on July 21, 2011, when Atlantis ...

LOS ANGELES — NASA's retired space shuttle ... for the first time outside of a NASA facility. In use, the boosters would be attached to the external tank to help the shuttle's main engines ...

While at NASA, he completed four space shuttle missions ... with Columbia’s first flight (in 1981) and ending with the program’s final mission, flown by Atlantis in 2011.

She applied and was selected in 1980. On her first mission, flying on NASA’s Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1985, Cleave became the 10th woman to travel into space. On the mission, she served as a ...

Almost three years before it exploded, he was aboard the shuttle on its maiden flight. He commanded two other shuttle missions and was the first New York City native to orbit the earth. By Richard ...

NASA's space shuttle program, officially dubbed the Space Transportation System (STS), built upon the legacy of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs with a goal of developing the first ...

April 9 (UPI) --The 40th anniversary Monday of the first orbital flight of a space shuttle -- Columbia ... Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, in that order. Shuttles carried the first American ...

was created in partnership with NASA to mark the 40th anniversary since the first space shuttle flight on April 12, 1981, that started a new era in space exploration. The shuttle model costs $199 ...