The Space Shuttle is made of up of the Orbiter Vehicle, the External Tank, and 2 Solid Rocket Boosters. Missions were launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There were five orbiters built ...

All 135 Space Shuttle Launches happened from Florida. There are two launch pads - 39a and 39b. First the space shuttle is taken to the Orbital Processing Facility (OPF) where maintenance takes place.

SpaceX, United Launch Alliance rockets have sent secret X-37B mini shuttle to orbit many times. Photos show what it looks like, how it gets to space.

NASA's Mission Control struggled with the question of whether to alert Columbia astronauts that the space shuttle was crippled on orbit as it began its doomed reentry. Wayne Hale, who later became ...

How does Space Force secretive military plane launch into space? Built by Boeing, the X-37B military space plane resembles a mini space shuttle and has previously gotten a ride to space in a ULA Atlas ...

Jean Wright's work as a seamstress for NASA was far from ordinary - she was one of the "sisters" who sewed the blankets on the space shuttle.

It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, exploding in mere minutes.

The head of NASA has decided to move one of the agency’s retired space shuttles to Houston, but which one seems to still be ...

The "One Big Beautiful Bill," now enacted, directs that space shuttle Discovery be removed from the Smithsonian and placed on display at Space Center Houston by January 2027.