NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo. The agency’s new era of spaceflight comes with a few parts from its past, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Discovery's days of spaceflight may long be over, but the historic NASA space shuttle may soon be on the move again – just not in ...

The Space Shuttle Discovery is currently on display at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center outside Washington. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust WASHINGTON — NASA has selected a shuttle ...

The United States once poured money and political capital into a spaceplane concept that promised to take off from a runway, reach orbit in a single leap, and slash the cost of spaceflight. Instead of ...

NASA is preparing to enter a new era of Moon and Mars exploration. Before it does, the agency is overdue for some remodeling of its facilities. Two historic test stands at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight ...

Houston, we may have a problem ... for your senators' plans to bring a NASA space shuttle to Texas. NASA's new chief Jared Isaacman said a controversial proposal to move the space shuttle Discovery to ...

Mike Massimino is a retired NASA astronaut and veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.

NASA's twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, both running on nuclear power, now have access to just a portion of the 470 ...

The choice of the Boeing 747 as the primary aircraft to ferry the Space Shuttle orbiter was a decision rooted in the jumbo jet’s size, strength, and availability during the 1970s. This unique ...

In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House and seven talented astronauts were wrangled into an orbital battle over soft-drink supremacy. In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House ...