Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history ...

The space shuttle Discovery is set to make its last journey to Launch Pad 39A Monday (Jan. 31) to prepare for one final voyage into space. Discovery will launch into space on Feb. 24.

Inside NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building, space shuttle Discovery is readied for its final trip to its seaside launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was in this building that ...

Space shuttle Discovery is set to make one last trip to the launch pad late Monday, to gear up for its final mission as NASA moves closer to retiring its orbiter fleet for good.

The historic space shuttle gantries that for decades towered over Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., are no more.

NASA returned the space shuttle Discovery to the launch pad Wednesday for the first mission since the Columbia disaster, after replacing the external fuel tank with a new model designed to prevent ...

All 135 Space Shuttle Launches happened from Florida. There are two launch pads - 39a and 39b. First the space shuttle is taken to the Orbital Processing Facility (OPF) where maintenance takes place.

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot.

It would be 32 months before another shuttle left a launch pad. Within days, NASA concluded two rubber O-rings in Challenger’s right solid rocket booster had failed because temperatures ...

There were high hopes for launching the space shuttle Discovery from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1983, including a promotional tour where the spacecraft flew into the Central Coast base.

The space shuttle Discovery will make its last journey to its seaside launch pad in Florida tonight (Jan. 31) to once again prepare to fly its final mission before being retired with the rest of ...