Discovery first flew in August 1984, completed 39 trips into space, and remains NASA's oldest surviving shuttle ... Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum annex. There, it will replace ...

The milestones, heartbreaks, and discoveries that shaped NASA's 30-year shuttle program. NASA's storied space shuttle program experienced extraordinary triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies during ...

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...

NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery has been reunited with one of its last crew members. The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum debuted Robonaut-2 (R2), NASA's first dexterous humanoid ...

The Director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Vanessa Wyche, says NASA and this community are forever bonded together.“The community came out to help with the search and recovery, and helped ...

The Putnam Museum and Science Center is hosting ... The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit by the space shuttle Discovery back in 1990. It orbits 332 miles above the Earth and travels ...

In 1984 it was lent to NASA and taken aound the Earth in the Space Shuttle orbiter, Discovery. It is the Polar Museum's most well travelled object. Comments are closed for this object What's this?

The museum also has an outpost in Chantilly ... housing artifacts like a Concorde supersonic airliner and the space shuttle Discovery as well as an IMAX theater. Visitors report that there's ...

HEMPHILL, Texas (News release) – The Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum will honor the legacy of the Space Shuttle Columbia with two days of special events planned to commemorate the 22nd ...

Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. An earlier shuttle, Enterprise, was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been ...

HEMPHILL, Texas (KETK)- In memory of the 22nd anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the ‘Remembering Columbia’ museum will be offering free admission on Saturday. East Texas nonprofit ...