On Saturday morning, two astronauts were inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame during a ceremony held under Space Shuttle Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex — a spacecraft of ...

Veteran astronauts shared stories and answered questions. Some astronauts who flew on the Atlantis also attended. Space shuttle Atlantis celebrates 10 years at Kennedy Space Center This year ...

While one is preparing for another launch, two former NASA astronauts were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.

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

On March 10, 1986, the U.S, Navy officials announced that the crew members of the USS Preserver had located the remains of the space shuttle Challenger, which had exploded and plummeted into the ...

NASA has confirmed that a piece of the space shuttle Challenger has been found in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida, nearly 37 years after the shuttle exploded shortly after liftoff.

The space shuttle flight program came to a close on July 21, 2011, when Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It had been more than 40 years since President Richard Nixon had ...

Four-time spaceflight veteran Peggy Whitson had a good excuse for not showing up Saturday for her own induction ceremony to ...

After a series of weather-related delays in April, NASA’s Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A, beginning a 10-day mission focused on bolstering the ...

On Thursday afternoon, Wright stood by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on display at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, explaining to members of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR ...

American astronaut Norman Thagard broke NASA's space endurance record at the time of 84 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes while ...