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Thirty Years of NASA Space Shuttle Missions
NASA's space shuttle fleet is hanging up its wings after 30 years. The first shuttle flight, STS-1, launched on April 12, 1981.
Experiments done in microgravity are revealing ...
See photos of America's historic spaceport, Ken...
A brain-computer interface allows astronauts to control a spaces shuttle with their thoughts.
The shootdown of the spy satellite USA-193 sparked talk about the graveyard of outer space, which is crowded with some 17,000 spent rocket stages, dead or dying satellites and countless crumbs of human-made orbital flotsam. An average of one object has re
Exploring the final frontier has always been a tough proposition.
The X-37B has been orbiting Earth on a mystery mission since Dec. 11, 2012.
SpaceX's Dragon capsule will be making its second contracted supply run.
A day after the shuttle launched, an object appeared to separate from the orbiter in space.
Retired astronaut Jerry Ross shares deeply personal memories of the Columbia and Challenger accidents with SPACE.com's Clara Moskowitz. Col. Ross was involved in comforting and counseling fallen astronauts' families.
On the 10 year anniversary of the Columbia shuttle disaster, NASA remembers.
See photos of NASA's 2013 memorial to the astronauts lost in the Columbia shuttle disaster and other space tragedies.
See SPACE.com's look at the Columbia shuttle disaster 10 years later here.
NASA's space shuttles are amazing flying machines. They launch like rocket, land like airplanes and then hit the hangar for a pit stop before turning around and doing it again.<br>
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Now, nearly 30 years after the first space shuttle - Columbia - bla
The tragedy reminded NASA and the nation just how tough it is to explore the final frontier.
See photos from STS-107, the tragic final flight of the space shuttle Columbia in early 2003.
The Sunjammer will help test out technology that could be useful for space weather forecasting and interstellar travel.
The Dream Chaser will fly solo for the first time in six to eight weeks.
