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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The space shuttle Endeavour will move into a vertical position at a California museum, complete with solid rocket boosters and fuel tank. Here's what the $400 million project entails.

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 ...