NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, speaking from aboard the International Space Station, paid tribute to the 50th anniversary of space shuttle Enterprise's debut.

This stunning astronaut photo shows the last time one of NASA's iconic space shuttles photobombed astronauts' view of Earth as the spacecraft docked with the ISS. NASA's Space Shuttle Program included ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The final four shuttle astronauts returned to Kennedy Space Center this past weekend and addressed a crowd underneath their ride, ...

Unlike the fictional U.S.S. Enterprise from the Star Trektelevision series, the real-life space shuttle that shared the same name never made it to the final frontier. Fifty years ago, on Sept. 17, ...

HIGH POINT, N.C., Aug. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Former NASA astronaut Eileen Collins, who was the first woman to pilot a space shuttle and the first woman to command a space mission, will deliver ...

If it were up to the crew of STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program, they would have kept flying. Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A on ...

With SpaceX now launching its reusable Falcon 9 rocket up to several times a week, the U.S. company has quickly become a giant of global spaceflight. It's a far cry from the days of America's Space ...

A new family destination called Inspiration Space Port is being planned for St. Cloud, Minnesota. The main attraction will be a full-scale space shuttle mock-up housed inside a 175-foot-tall dome.

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