Texas Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are blaming political favoritism for what they call a decades-old snub—and now they’re pushing to bring the Space Shuttle Discovery back to Houston Both Texas ...

In 2010, NASA retired four space shuttles, sending them across the United States as a historical reminder of the nation's space history. But none remain in Houston, where NASA’s Johnson Space Center ...

"You'd be doing irreparable damage." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The tug-of-war over space shuttle Discovery is becoming more ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and send it to Houston for display. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

The U.S. space shuttle program, which comes to an end in June, leaves a complicated legacy. No other craft has carried as many crew and as much cargo as the fleet of space planes, but they fell short ...

The United States once poured money and political capital into a spaceplane concept that promised to take off from a runway, reach orbit in a single leap, and slash the cost of spaceflight. Instead of ...

Introduction : organizational aspects of the Columbia disaster ; Synopsis : NASA, the CAIB report, and the Columbia disaster / Moshe Farjoun and William H. Starbuck -- History and policy at the space ...

Author Adam Higginbotham joins John Williams to discuss his book, ‘Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space.’ Adam talks about what makes him interested in these types of ...

Discovery's days of spaceflight may long be over, but the historic NASA space shuttle may soon be on the move again – just not in orbit. As part of Republicans' massive tax and spending legislation ...