On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia was reentering Earth's atmosphere after a two-week routine mission when it ...

It was former President George W. Bush who enacted the end of NASA’s space shuttle program, set for this year, but he did so in order to make way for a new program, which he promised would usher in ...

Texas’ two U.S. senators, Republicans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, have called for the Space Shuttle Discovery to be relocated ...

Even still, according to a letter from the Smithsonian to Congress, the institute has been asked to work with NASA to prepare ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

Tucked inside President Donald Trump's flagship tax and spending bill last month was a little-noticed provision to relocate the iconic Space Shuttle Discovery from a museum outside Washington to ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (7News) — As the infamous saying goes, "Houston, we have a problem." When Congressional Republicans backed President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Budget Bill," Texas senators Ted ...

Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station on Sunday, NASA's first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately ...

The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and landing on July 21, 2011. China and Russia are the only other countries to have independent ...