The shuttle even did a promotional tour of the area, flying into the Central Coast base on the back of a Boeing 747.

The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983. After test glide and landings upon release from aircraft in 1977, the Space Shuttle began orbital flights ...

In this special Hubble image 23 years in the making, the sparkling spiral galaxy UGC 10043 reveals the secrets of its ...

The milestones, heartbreaks, and discoveries that shaped NASA's 30-year shuttle program. NASA's storied space shuttle program experienced extraordinary triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies during ...

Robert Cabana, a NASA associate administrator, astronaut, and a colonel in the United States Marine Corps, received the ...

The Astronauts Memorial Foundation, in partnership with NASA Kennedy Space Center and Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

Construction on Endeavour commenced in 1987, using spare parts from Discovery and Atlantis. Final assembly finished in July 1990, and the shuttle was shipped to the Kennedy Space Center in May ...

Only three countries in the world - United States, Russia, and China - have the ability to carry out docking of two ...

The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old, dating to the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 that carried Soviet ...

The year 2000 (Y2K) problem, also known as the millennium bug, was a major source of computer concerns 25 years ago. It was ...