Ahead of the iconic spacecraft? About a 1,400 mile journey across the country to its new home in Texas.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The ...

Space Shuttle cutaway showing astronauts working with ESA Spacelab, 1980. Image: NASA. Less than a year after its birth, NASA announced its first astronaut class, the Mercury Seven, on April 9, 1959.

Moving Discovery was the goal of legislation brought earlier this year by Texas Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, ...

CUTAWAY: As shuttle programme fades away, what comes next for manned spaceflight? By Gayle Putrich 2010-11-22T13:00:00+00:00. As the Space Shuttle programme slowly winds to a close in 2011, ...

Cutaway illustration of the space shuttle (Image: NASA) 4 / 12. STS-1 Orbiter Columbia on the launch pad at KSC in December 1980 (Image: NASA) 5 / 12.

How to watch "The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth" online on BBC iPlayer in the UK and from anywhere. New documentary goes inside the Columbia disaster.

Cutaway diagram was by Tom Dixon. SpaceX Has a $52 million cryogenic fluid management NASA Tipping point award. This test would involve transferring super-cold propellant from one tank to another ...

The space shuttle reentered orbit this fall after a 15-month retirement, and this time it was bright blue. The new orbiters are identical to the first ones pulled out, but this time are from Chicago.

Space Lab. This Space Shuttle cutaway shows six astronauts working with ESA Spacelab in Earth orbit. Image: NASA. A Hawk Inside. The Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk is an unmanned aerial vehicle ...

This fuel cell is a cutaway version of the electric-power generating device used on the two-astronaut Gemini spacecraft during ten missions in 1965-66. ... The Gemini program pioneered the use of fuel ...

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 ...