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 ...

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.

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 ...

This 1972-made space shuttle mock-up, which is 122 feet long, will soon make its way through the streets of Downey — in pieces — on its way to the Columbia Memorial Space Center, where it will ...

(WASHINGTON) – Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton and NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe today announced the naming of Columbia Point, a 13,980-foot mountain peak in Colorado’s Sangre… ...