A growing movement is fighting to keep Space Shuttle Discovery at the Smithsonian, warning that a proposed move to Houston ...

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

A short, interactive slide is one of several attractions and exhibits, highlighted by the full-stack Space Shuttle Endeavour, ...

Discover how the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is bringing expert talks, hands-on artifacts, and preservation ...

The space shuttle reentered orbit this fall after a 15-month retirement, and this time it was bright blue. The new orbiters are identical to the first ones pulled out, but this time are from Chicago.

Trump 'Big Beautiful Bill' provides $85 million to move a NASA space shuttle. Here's where Discovery, which made its inaugural flight in 1984, completed 39 missions before it retired in 2011.

The positioning had to be precise. The shuttle’s nose was raised 200 feet into the night sky so that the rudder could clear 80 feet of space.

The space shuttle Endeavour will move into a vertical position at a California museum, complete with solid rocket boosters and fuel tank. Here's what the $400 million project entails.

Explorers trudged the Atlantic Ocean searching for World War II artifacts, but they stumbled on something else — a 20-foot-long piece of debris from the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was ...

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. The insulting phrase for ...

Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-2) prepares for an unpowered but smooth landing on the desert area of Edwards Air Force Base in California in 1981. NASA. Planetary scientist and pilot Tom Jones had a ...