Earlier today, the space shuttle Discovery made a low-altitude pass over Washington D.C. atop a specially modified 747 on its way to its final resting place at the Smithsonian Institution.

NASA’s Spacecraft Design Division (SDD) began serious work on developing concepts for the Space Shuttle in early 1970. The drawings below illustrate most of the configurations that were ...

When Buckey flew on his 16-day Space Shuttle mission in 1998, there were email and video conferences with family, as well as mental-health monitoring, but nothing like what's being considered for ...