Time-lapse of Space Shuttle Endeavour stacked with an external tank and pair of solid rocket boosters for a exhibit at the ...

Space shuttle Discovery may be removed from the Smithsonian and put on display at Space Center Houston, if two senators from Texas get their way.

A bill introduced Thursday could help bring the Space Shuttle Discovery back home to Texas.

Texas U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on Thursday filed new legislation aimed at bringing the Space Shuttle Discovery home to the Houston area from Virginia.

Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz introduced a bill that would move Space Shuttle Discovery to a nonprofit near the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston.

"It's past time that the Space Center Houston Museum houses a space shuttle," Sen. Ted Cruz said about the "Bring the Space Shuttle Home" bill.

The Space Shuttle launched to space strapped to a massive external fuel tank and a pair of solid rocket boosters, but it too contributed to the thrust it needed to escape Earth's gravity. It did ...

Today marks 39 years since the tragic Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, honoring the brave pioneers who lost their lives in space.

After working to improve the booster design and creating new management practices to improve safety, NASA relaunched shuttle flights on Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center.

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 ...

Space Shuttle Reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft The three parts that made up the space shuttle were the orbiter - the part that resembled an aeroplane, the large orange external tank and the 2 ...

China has shown off a reusable shuttle that it intends to use to ferry cargo to and from its Tiangong space station.