On Jan. 9, 1990, space shuttle Columbia took off on its ninth flight, STS-32, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in ...

The shuttle even did a promotional tour of the area, flying into the Central Coast base on the back of a Boeing 747.

On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle ...

It will revolutionize transportation into near space, by routinizing it,” Nixon said. It would be more than a decade before the first shuttle, Columbia, launched from the Space Coast.

From 2005 until 2011, a Space Shuttle would have to perform a backflip ... by NASA engineers for safety purposes after the 2003 Columbia disaster, in which damage to the heat shield during ...

Only three countries in the world - United States, Russia, and China - have the ability to carry out docking of two ...

NASA administrators are also accountable to elected officials. Administrators are appointed by the president but must be confirmed by the Senate. Congress has a great deal to say about the budget that ...

Carter is hardly remembered as a champion of NASA. But he saved the space shuttle program, and his words that have been journeying aboard the Voyager probes for decades.

Nelson trained and launched into orbit with the crew of the space shuttle Columbia in January 1986 on the six-day STS-61C mission. Serving as a payload specialist, he conducted 12 medical ...

With 39th President Jimmy Carter passing away at the age of 100, we are revisiting this story of how he unexpectedly saved the space shuttle. We’d been chatting for the better part of two hours ...

The current NASA administrator, Bill Nelson, is both a former senator and a former astronaut, having gone to space on the shuttle Columbia in January 1986. Further, the success of commercial space ...

NASA has long been highly visible and is among the most celebrated programs in modern United States history. Some generations ...