This video details the lengthy process of getting the Space Shuttle into orbit, primarily at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Black side down,' Lego style Lego has released another NASA-themed set; this time, a version of the US space agency's Boeing 747-based Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with a Space Shuttle perched on top.… It ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

After test glide and landings upon release from aircraft in 1977, the Space Shuttle began orbital flights in April 1981. The shuttle would launch 135 times from Florida — but only 133 would land ...

Live updates from the launch of the Ax-4 mission. The long delayed Axiom Space Mission 4 crew lifted off at 2:31 a.m. on June ...

Students gathered around model space shuttles. Teachers switched on TVs to show the often-delayed countdown. ... It would be 32 months before another shuttle left a launch pad.

There were high hopes for launching the space shuttle Discovery from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1983, ... The Air Force has spent $2.5 billion to build the space shuttle launch complex.

American space agency NASA conducted the first full duration hot fire of a brand-new RS-25 rocket engine since the hardware ...

The 122-foot-long-by-35-foot-tall space shuttle mockup, named the “Inspiration,” was transported via big rig in multiple parts 0.3 miles along Bellflower Boulevard from a city maintenance yard ...

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But while the Space Shuttle came alive in the 80s, it was born 50 years ago on January 5, 1972, when President Richard Nixon announced that what NASA would take on as an encore to the Moon ...