The Smithsonian recently confirmed that NASA and the museum have been directed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ...

Moving the Discovery from Virginia to Texas could be risky for the fragile craft. After the space shuttle Discovery made its ...

NASA's fleet of Space Shuttles could survive challenging solar conditions, but needed a boost to get around on Earth. Here's ...

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space Shuttle programme chipped away at one of Nasa's blind spots. On 18 June 1983, ...

Discovery has been on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum for more than a decade. Now, Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn want to bring it to Texas. Reading time: Reading time 3 ...

When the Space Shuttle lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in 1981, it was the first reusable spacecraft. The massive orange external fuel tank was the major component designed to be destroyed on ...

Eileen Collins made history as the first woman to pilot and command a Nasa spacecraft - but despite her remarkable ...

NASA is changing the way that its employees come in contact with, and remember, one of its worst tragedies. In the wake of the 2003 loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its STS-107 crew, NASA ...