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 ...

That could soon change, thanks to a new NASA flagship telescope being designed to seek out strange new worlds that could ...

Two Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station have broken the world record for the longest single spacewalk, set more than two decades ago by the US space programme. The previous record ...