The mint set noon EDT on Thursday (May 15) as its T-0 for the launch of Florida's dollar celebrating the retired spacecraft.

29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center. Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another shuttle and its crew were lost in the skies above America: The shuttle Columbia ...

who oversaw the final space shuttle missions, now leads development of Virgin Galactic's Delta-class spacecraft. Delta-class rocket planes are expected to begin suborbital flights with private ...

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