The rollout ceremony for NASA's first space shuttle, OV-101, coincided with Constitution Day of the nation's bicentennial on Sept.17, 1976. Although ...

NASA's fleet of Space Shuttles could survive challenging solar conditions, but needed a boost to get around on Earth. Here's ...

Veteran astronaut John Young of Orlando and rookie Bob Crippen flew Columbia into orbit on its second launch attempt, ending ...

Unlike the fictional U.S.S. Enterprise from the Star Trektelevision series, the real-life space shuttle that shared the same name never made it to the final frontier. Fifty years ago, on Sept. 17, ...

A Long Island kid who loved Charlie Brown and the New York Mets would one day repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

Downey’s Columbia Memorial Space Center is restoring a 1970s-era mockup that was the foundation for the design of all NASA’s ...