WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Nick Lampson introduced a bill to allow NASA to purchase additional Russian Soyuz and Progress vehicles if the President notifies Congress that they are needed to ...

Two senators earmarked $85 million for the move to Houston—but safely shipping an 86-ton shuttle orbiter cross-country could ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Maybe NASA's managers still view the shuttle as the Cadillac of space technology, but they sometimes make it sound as if it were a cranky old Ford with a few too many miles on ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Discovery and its six-astronaut crew ended a 13-day journey of more than five million miles and concluded the spacecraft’s illustrious 27-year career with an 11:57 ...

The Space Shuttle program operated for 30 years as reusable vehicles transporting astronauts and supplies, with six shuttles built, two of which were tragically lost before the fleet retired in 2011.