One of NASA's most traveled astronauts in the agency's first decade, Lovell flew four times: Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 ...

After 25 years and multiple space missions, Butch Wilmore retires from NASA less than five months after he returned from a ...

Shuttle Endeavour was on standby for a possible rescue mission until late last week, after inspections found Atlantis' thermal shielding to be solid for re-entry.

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz want to relocate space shuttle Discovery to Houston. It will be more challenging than when the shuttle program ended.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA is fueling space shuttle Atlantis for its afternoon liftoff.

Jean Wright's work as a seamstress for NASA was far from ordinary - she was one of the "sisters" who sewed the blankets on the space shuttle.

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 ...

The Space Shuttle Atlantis is on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Merritt Island, Florida, in spaceflight configuration. Space Shuttle Discovery, which launched the Hubble ...

Public ceremony to be held under the display of space shuttle Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Although they never flew in space together, astronauts David Hilmers and Marsha ...

Following that landing, only one other Shuttle mission took place, the Atlantis STS-135 mission, marking the end of NASA’s 30-year-long Shuttle era. Endeavour en route to its new vertical display.

A NASA astronaut who joined the space agency after seeing a recruitment flier at a post office, Mary Cleave served on two space shuttle missions in the 1980s and lead climate change research that ...

Over four days, the Atlantis crew successfully deployed the Magellan Venus exploration spacecraft, the first planetary probe to be deployed from a space shuttle.