As NASA and SpaceX pivot toward speeding astronauts to Mars, U.S. scientists are testing technologies that could transform ...

Space Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to rise off Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center Wednesday, carrying a load that cannot be weighed with conventional scales. When the seven astronauts ride the ...

Federal regulators gave SpaceX the green light for another test flight of Starship, the most powerful launch vehicle ever ...

When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar ...

Dr. Harris stepped out of the space shuttle Discovery in orbit on February 9, 1995, shattering expectations for the brothers ...

In 1995, Harris — physician, astronaut, philanthropist, scuba diver, and author — became the first African American to walk in space. In May, NASA will honor him as the newest member in its Hall of ...

However, John Denver’s death nearly happened years before, as he almost became the citizen who was brought along on the infamously tragic Challenger Mission ... via the space shuttle Challenger.

Shuttle Pharma is a discovery and development stage specialty pharmaceutical company focused on improving the outcomes for cancer patients treated with radiation therapy (RT). Our mission is to ...

Planetary space probes such as Mars Odyssey use a technique called aerobraking to save fuel. NASA/JPL ...

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Four years later, the shuttle Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the first of 135 missions that it ... and then the new orbiter, Discovery, in the fall of 1983, the ...

Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Sunday, May 4, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the Starlink 6-84 mission. Original story ...