NASA mounted space shuttle Discovery on a jumbo jet Sunday (April 15), in preparation for the retired orbiter's delivery to the Smithsonian. The paired air- and spacecraft are expected to depart ...

A set of memorabilia chronicling Sally Ride's pioneering path to space just fetched a pretty penny at auction. In June 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to reach the final frontier, on ...

The Space Shuttles were reusable vehicles that launched like a rocket, landed like a glider, deployed satellites and helped build the international space station. The first spaceflight of NASA’s ...