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 ...

there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the story behind them is fascinating. The push for printers in space came from the combined forces of NASA’s love for checklists and the need ...

The Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum ‘Remembering Columbia’ Museum in Hemphill works to preserve the legacy of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its STS-107 crew. As part of the 20th annual ...

Space Mountain was one of the first computer-controlled roller coasters. If the ride's "space shuttles" (or "rocket sleds") approached each other too closely, the computers slowed or stopped the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The US is not the only country that has retired space shuttles; Russia has done the same. But Russia did it back in the 1990s. Recently, members of the YouTube ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...