WASHINGTON -- The U.S. space agency NASA is facing a critical deadline to make its biggest decision in a generation: whether to go forward with plans to retire the space shuttle fleet and replace ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Two years after Columbia's demise, excitement over the space shuttle fleet's return to the skies in a few months is overtaking some of the agony of the accident. Two ...

NASA said Wednesday that it will again ground the space shuttle fleet after analysts discovered that during the launch of Discovery the external fuel tank lost chunks of foam insulation similar to ...

AP Science WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- NASA has grounded the space shuttle fleet while engineers try to determine why tiny cracks are developing in the fuel line feeding the main rocket engines.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most ...

NASA retired its shuttle fleet last year after completing the U.S. portion of the $100 billion International Space Station, a permanently staffed research complex that is owned by 15 nations and ...

Space shuttle Endeavour and its six crew members wrapped up a 14-day construction mission to the International Space Station on Sunday with a precision touchdown in Florida.

A small engineering firm on Florida’s Space Coast hopes to recover some of the revenue and jobs the region lost with retirement of the space shuttle fleet by offering maintenance, repair and ...

Object Details Author Neal, Valerie Subject Discovery (Spacecraft) History Notes Includes index. Summary "A mission-by-mission history of Space Shuttle Discovery from creation to retirement, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Choosing safety over schedule, NASA has grounded the space shuttle fleet while engineers try to determine why tiny cracks are developing in the fuel line feeding the ...