For many years NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, were the only spacefaring entities in the world. The Chinese National Space Administration launched its first astronaut in 2003. After NASA ...

Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spacecraft has taken a significant step toward operational missions. The uncrewed spaceplane ...

The Moon and asteroids are at the top of the mission list for a number of agencies ... that’s similar to the Air Force’s tiny X-37 space shuttle, is designed to carry out various scientific ...

Under early plans, the third Space Shuttle mission would have been flown by astronauts Jack Lousma and Fred Haise, who would have deployed a module called the Teleoperator Retrieval System (TRS).

It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which engineers spotted O-ring seal defficiencies that would doom Challenger a year ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia ... The flight was the shuttle program’s 25th mission and the first time a ...

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Florida (at top) and Texas dollar coins in the U.S. Mint's American Innovation series celebrating the space shuttle and Mission Control, respectively, to be released in 2025. | Credit: United ...

25 years ago, NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on mission STS-99 with the groundbreaking Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) onboard. Among the crew was German ESA astronaut Gerhard Thiele.

The proceedings commemorated the lives lost in NASA's three space tragedies — the Apollo 1 fire in January 1967, the space shuttle Challenger ... were testing the mission's command module ...