After two weather postponements during the weekend, skies cleared at the Kennedy Space Center and allowed NASA to successfully launch Discovery on just the second shuttle flight since the destruction ...

There is a long process to getting the Space Shuttle ready to launch! If it lands Vandenburg Air Force Base in California ...

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

NASA's fleet of Space Shuttles could survive challenging solar conditions, but needed a boost to get around on Earth. Here's how a pair of 747s helped.

SpaceX Starship Flight 14, NASA launch directors and Crew-13 astronauts highlight 321 Launch, FLORIDA TODAY's weekly space ...

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

“The simple things did not provide us any resolution to the problem,” said deputy shuttle program manager Wayne Hale. The sensors are designed to shut off the shuttle’s three main engines before fuel ...

Under the blue sky of the vast grounds, the massive jumbo jet (Boeing 747) towers over those who look up, with the space ...