Since its inception in 1966, Star Trek has inspired astronauts, scientists, engineers, and space enthusiasts who believed in Gene Roddenberry’s vision of space exploration.

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

Udvar-Hazy Center at the Smithsonian since 2011. Discovery, which replaced Space Shuttle Enterprise at the Smithsonian, is the last of the shuttles to be owned by the federal government.

A ceremony with astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, followed where Discovery was displayed ...

An earlier shuttle, Enterprise, was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been marked by very public tragedy.

The Soviets would copy the American Space Shuttle. The first two American shuttles were authorized in 1972, and the first prototype, Enterprise, would fly atmospheric tests in 1976. Although the ...

back to the top- Spacesuits for the space shuttle era are pressurized at 4.3 pounds per square inch (psi), but because the gas in the suit is 100 percent oxygen instead of 20 percent, the person ...

And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...

A ceremony with astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, followed where Discovery was displayed nose-to-nose with Space Shuttle Enterprise. Among the attendees were Mike ...