NASA managers are meeting Wednesday to consider a new launch date for the space shuttle Discovery's much-delayed mission to the International Space Station. The U.S. space agency has pushed back the ...

Led by commander Mark Polansky, the astronauts will run through emergency escapes from the launch pad, practise landing on Kennedy Space Center's runway and learn how to put out fires on the shuttle.

The Johnson Space Center is one of Houston's top attractions and a major destination for visitors. "Just being able to view actual equipment is just really amazing," one visitor said. But even with ...

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

The Space Shuttle Discovery, one of the most flown orbiters in NASA history, is at the center of an escalating political fight over whether the spacecraft should be pulled from the Smithsonian’s ...