NASA's retired Space Shuttle Discovery could be on the move from Virginia to Texas under a provision in the GOP's so-called ...

Buried in the sweeping legislation is an $85 million provision to move NASA's most-flown spacecraft from the national ...

At a time when money is too tight for NASA’s science exploration endeavors, Texas senators are willing to pour millions into ...

The space shuttle Discovery voyage on September 29, 1988, was NASA’s first return to space shuttle flight about two-and-a-half years after the Challenger disaster that killed all seven crew ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

The space shuttle Discovery performs a 360-degree flip in 2009 in a handout image from NASA taken by the International Space Station's crew. Discovery operated from 1984 to 2011. NASA/Getty Images ...

The high-fidelity space shuttle mockup, which was known as Explorer for the 18 years it was displayed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, will sail into Houston’s Clear ...

In all, NASA operated five shuttles in space. Shuttle Challenger and its crew were lost in a launch accident Jan. 28, 1986. Columbia and its crew were lost during return from orbit Feb. 1, 2003 ...

The space shuttle program would go on to become one of NASA’s most celebrated. After 135 missions carrying more than 350 astronauts into orbit, the shuttles were retired in 2011 .

From the archives: Watch CBS News coverage of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on Feb. 1, 2003, in the video above. Twenty years ago this Wednesday — on Feb. 1, 2003, at 8:48:39 a.m. EST ...