Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...

On February 4, 1995, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery launched an itty bitty satellite called an Orbital Debris ...

It would take two years of investigations and modifications before a NASA space shuttle flew into space again. Discovery returned NASA to space on Sept. 29, 1988, with the STS-26 mission.

After Elon Musk said SpaceX would rescue the “stranded” Starliner astronauts, NASA moved their return date up by two weeks — a slight adjustment to a plan that had already been in place for months.

Dr. Harris’ passion for space was ignited at the age of 13 when he watched the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. Determined to ...

O-ring erosion on Discovery would have disastrous effects a year later It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy ...

On this day in 1995, Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. made history, stepping into the vastness of space and becoming the first African ...

The first shuttle mission of 1995, STS-63 included several historic firsts. As part of Phase 1 of the International Space ...

The STS-63 mission, more popularly dubbed as the near-Mir mission, was a successful mission that spanned from February 3-11, ...

(NASA) KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – On a cold Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifted ... in the pursuit of space exploration and discovery. As we reflect on the Challenger mission ...

From realistic NASA-based shuttles to fun lunar playsets ... set let you recreate your very own scale model of the Space Shuttle Discovery, it also comes with a Hubble Telescope.