Discovery and its crew of seven landed safely back to Earth on Tuesday, ending a 14-day test of space shuttle safety that was shadowed by the disaster two and a half years ago of the shuttle Columbia.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Back on April 12, 1981, the space shuttle roared to life for the first time. Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying two astronauts – a moonwalker, John Young, ...

“We’re looking forward to coming home,” Commander Eileen Collins radioed to Mission Control upon crew wakeup at 8:30 p.m. EDT today. Collins and her crewmates immediately began preparing the orbiter ...

Commander Eileen Collins and the six-member Space Shuttle Discovery crew are scheduled to land at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at approximately 4:46 a.m. EDT, Monday. Discovery began the 13-day ...

The space shuttle system has been modified many times since the first launch of space shuttle Columbia in 1981. During the 1980s, major upgrade programs were established to respond to problems and ...

Richard "Dick" Truly, who was one of the first astronauts to fly on the space shuttle and later led NASA as its eighth administrator, has died at the age of 86. Truly's death on Tuesday (Feb. 27) was ...