EFSC students are the future of human space flight Eastern Florida State College Aerospace Technology Instructor Ed Mango, lef

NASA says it will try to launch Atlantis on the first space shuttle mission of the year in early June, almost three months later than originally planned, so that technicians can finish repairing its hail-damaged fuel tank.

NASA's iconic Discovery space shuttle may not be on the move any time soon. Lawmakers in Texas have long sought to relocate the historic spacecraft to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and a massive tax and spending bill signed in summer 2025 by ...

NASA. On February 7, 1984, Bruce McCandless II slipped out of space shuttle Challenger and became something no human had ever been before: a biological spacecraft. Astronauts had walked in space before.

NEW YORK — For the first time in history, a space shuttle is landing aboard an aircraft carrier, but instead of catching an arresting wire at high speed, the winged orbiter will be slowly lowered onto the flight deck by crane. The craning operation to ...

On the morning of January 28, 1986, seven crew members were killed when the space shuttle Challenger broke apart a little over a minute after it launched. Those killed included five NASA astronauts, one payload specialist, and a civilian schoolteacher.

The Artemis II mission crew contains four people — including one woman and one Black man, both of whom will be the first on a lunar mission. But NASA hasn't been talking about these milestones much. The Artemis II mission, which will carry astronauts ...

NASA's Space Launch System rocket developed for the agency's Artemis lunar program is among the tallest in the world. Here's how it stack up.