Hubble launched on April 24, 1990, stowed inside the cargo bay of space shuttle Discovery.STS-31 was Discovery's 10th launch, and it was the 35th space shuttle mission overall.

The Senate narrowly passed Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Tuesday with a provision setting aside $85 million to move Discovery ...

Women in space: An international timeline of their milestones to the stars and back More than 600 people who have launched into space. Only 100 have been women.

This week marks two decades since the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy, where seven crew members killed. ... Follow a timeline of the Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003. Editorial.

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

Astronaut, X-15 test pilot and space shuttle pilot Joe Engle has died at home in Houston, Texas. He was 91. Engle passed peacefully surrounded by his family according to a NASA press release.

Harris, the first African American to perform a spacewalk, flew on two shuttle missions. Whitson, set to command Axiom Mission 4, holds the record for most time in space by a U.S. astronaut.

Fixing the Hubble Space Telescope: A timeline of NASA's shuttle servicing missions. Josh Dinner. Tue, April 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM UTC. 8 min read.