On Oct. 7, 2002, the space shuttle Atlantis launched from Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-112. This mission brought the ...

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space Shuttle programme chipped away at one of Nasa's blind spots.

in memory of the pilot of the ill-fated STS-107 space shuttle Columbia accident in 2003. All seven astronauts lost their lives when the shuttle broke apart during reentry. Space Coast be aware: this ...

McArthur launched on two spaceflights, logging 213 days in orbit across her nearly 25 years, and held leadership positions at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Joan Higginbotham, who spent 12 days aboard the International Space Station and on a NASA Shuttle mission, now promotes STEM subjects in her role at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex ...

This article originally appeared on Florida Today: 321 Launch: Space news you may have missed over the past week (Sept. 22) Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara ...

Mission Page. This is a live feed from NASA TV of the STS-75 Columbia mission. Please reload manually if there is a problem getting the images due to heavy traffic ...

SpaceX lent a hand to fellow commercial cargo company Northrop Grumman once again with a launch Sunday evening on the Space ...

A busy slate of launches was planned for the last full week of September, including flights for two major low-Earth orbit broadband constellations, as well as a NASA science mission that has now flown ...

Is there a launch today? Upcoming SpaceX ... in memory of the pilot of the ill-fated STS-107 space shuttle Columbia accident in 2003. All seven astronauts lost their lives when the shuttle broke apart ...

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