Founded in 1990, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame is part of the Heroes & Legends attraction at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Harris and Whitson's likenesses, etched in glass and mounted ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11.

On Thursday afternoon, Wright stood by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on display at Kennedy ... machine — protected the space shuttle and its crew from the heat of reentry into Earth's atmosphere.

Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another shuttle and its crew were lost in the ... 2011, when Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It had been more than 40 years ...