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Presumably, he will blame the Obama administration, even though it is quite clear in hindsight that there were no political machinations behind the decision to not award a space shuttle to Houston.

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.

On Jan. 28, 1986, a family from Detroit watches the Challenger from Cocoa Beach, Fla., cheering and clapping, photographing themselves with the shuttle in the background, not knowing that the ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...

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 ...

If you're remembering back to NASA's legacy Space Shuttle, which launched from 1981 to 2011, that was a smaller rocket. It's dwarfed by these newcomers. According to NASA , it stood at only 184 ...

Filmmaker Hannah Berryman explains that Collins’ unique background inspired her to tell the story of the first American woman to pilot and command NASA’s Space Shuttle in the new documentary ...