Discovery, the showpiece of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space ...

On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia was reentering Earth's atmosphere after a two-week routine mission when it ...

Even still, according to a letter from the Smithsonian to Congress, the institute has been asked to work with NASA to prepare ...

Texas’ two U.S. senators, Republicans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, have called for the Space Shuttle Discovery to be relocated ...

The White House's Office of Management and Budget is looking into tearing NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery into pieces to move ...

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space Shuttle programme chipped away at one of Nasa's blind spots.

Eileen Collins reflects on her time as the first female not only to pilot but also command a spacecraft. Here's her ...

You can listen to episode 1 here. For more, search for 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. This is a BBC Audio Science Unit production for the BBC World Service ...

When the Space Shuttle lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in 1981, it was the first reusable spacecraft. The massive orange external fuel tank was the major component designed to be destroyed on ...

"This is not a transfer — it's a heist." A provision in President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" orders the Air and Space Museum to transfer ownership of Space Shuttle Discovery back to NASA for ...

For a quarter of a century, humans have continuously occupied the International Space Station. Here's a look at how far we've ...

It won’t have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force is set to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft — which looks like a miniature space shuttle — back for a long-duration mission to orbit during a late ...