Six-man crew to land in Florida Wednesday as shuttle program winds down. May 31, 2011— -- The space shuttle Endeavour and its crew are scheduled to return to Earth early Wednesday morning, ...

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 ...

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Sharon Caples McDougle joined the US Air Force in 1982, where she specialized in working with pressure suits for the SR-71 and U-2 missions. She fitted suits for individual pilots and suited them up ...

NASA’s launch and mission teams, along with the Artemis II crew, completed a key test Dec. 20, a countdown demonstration test, ahead of the Artemis II flight around the Moon early next year.

This video explores the intricate process of getting the Space Shuttle into orbit, primarily taking place at Kennedy Space ...

SHANNON AIRPORT WAS proposed as a potential “emergency landing” site for the NASA Space Shuttle after a change in the launch plans for the now-defunct spacecraft some thirty years ago.

First there was "Endeavour." Next came, "Resilience," "Endurance" and "Freedom." And now there is "Grace." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

NASA and SpaceX's Crew-11 mission is made up of two U.S. astronauts, one from Japan and a Russian cosmonaut. They'll be aboard the International... An international crew of four launched into orbit ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The next four humans in the parade of SpaceX launches from the Space Coast will have to wait at least another day for their trip to the International Space Station after weather ...

A crew of four wrapped up a nearly five-month stay on the International Space Station, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California under a canopy of parachutes Saturday in the same ...

"I have spent so many years imagining exactly what this is going to be like." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The next astronaut ...