Under the blue sky of the vast grounds, the massive jumbo jet (Boeing 747) towers over those who look up, with the space ...

Four people — two NASA astronauts, one from the European Space Agency and a Russian cosmonaut — spent nearly eight months at ...

Veteran astronaut John Young of Orlando and rookie Bob Crippen flew Columbia into orbit on its second launch attempt, ending ...

Interest in Space: He was 8 when he first felt the excitement of space during a family road trip to Pennsylvania. “My dad pulled off the road and turned on the radio in the old Mercury. He said, 'Kids ...

From stray pens to birds, Mike Leinbach, retired launch director, explains why shuttle launches sometimes got scrubbed.

IDAHO FALLS – Ellen Ochoa was one of five people aboard the space shuttle Discovery when it launched from the Kennedy Space Center on April 8, 1993. The nine-day mission was the first of four that ...

A Space Shuttle commander fights reentry as Columbia’s crew return from sixteen days of microgravity science-did they make it in time? In this episode, we follow the career and final hours of Space ...

In April 1984, NASA launched a satellite carrying 12.5 million tomato seeds into orbit to test how space radiation affects biological life. The mission was originally scheduled to last a single year.

On Sept. 18, 2026, SpaceX submitted a 12-page technical response to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) detailing atmospheric re-entry thermodynamics and orbital collision probabilities for ...

Sierra Space conducted two drop tests of its Ghost reentry vehicle during U.S. Space Command's recent Apollo Nexus exercise. Credit: Sierra Space A bottle of whiskey and a software-defined radio might ...

A new family destination called Inspiration Space Port is being planned for St. Cloud, Minnesota. The main attraction will be a full-scale space shuttle mock-up housed inside a 175-foot-tall dome.

ST. CLOUD, Minn., Sept. 2, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Planning is underway for Inspiration Space Port, a year-round family destination that will place Shuttle Inspiration, a full-scale Space Shuttle ...