From the archives: On June 7th, 1983, Astronauts Story Musgrave (left) and Don Peterson orbit the Earth at over 17,000 miles per hour, tethered to the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Challenger on ...

Boeing and NASA have released this beautiful photo of Atlantis by Bill Ingalls, just after it touched down at the Kennedy Space Center, just before dawn on July 21, 2011.

A short, interactive slide is one of several attractions and exhibits, highlighted by the full-stack Space Shuttle Endeavour, ...

Buried in the sweeping legislation is an $85 million provision to move NASA's most-flown spacecraft from the national ...

Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 16, 2003. It was the 28th mission for the orbiter, with the STS-107 crew set to carry out experiments over the ...

Maiden voyage. Columbia became the first shuttle to launch into space on 12 April 1981. With astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen on board, the orbiter circled Earth 36 times before landing at ...

Nearly two-and-a-half years after the space shuttle Columbia exploded over Texas while reentering Earth, a second fatal accident that killed all seven crew members, Discovery (STS-114) launched on ...

Explore the workings of a Space Shuttle in orbit, focusing on its systems, functionalities, and mechanics. This 3D animation provides an in-depth look at how the shuttle operates in space.

NASA's prototype orbiter Enterprise, atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, departed Dryden (today, Armstrong) Flight Research Center in California on May 16, 1983, on the first leg of its ...

The space shuttle Endeavour began the first part of its journey to its final resting place Thursday, an effort more than a decade in the making after arriving at the California Science Center ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...