SPACE CENTER, Houston – NASA grounded future shuttle flights Wednesday because a big chunk of insulating foam flew off Discovery’s fuel tank during liftoff – as it did in Columbia’s doomed mission – ...

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

After the planned 30 November landing of the Space Shuttle Endeavour following its 17-day mission to the International Space Station, the orbiter fleet will have only 10 flights left, while the ISS ...

More than four months after the Columbia catastrophe and the grounding of the three remaining space shuttles, NASA officials are wrestling with the question of when flights can resume. Estimates and ...

HOUSTON — As NASA continues to assess the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the future of the shuttle program, at least one official is warning it could take up to a year before the next flight takes off ...

When the first edition of NASA’s Implementation Plan for Space Shuttle Return to Flight and Beyond was released nearly three years ago, its purpose was to provide a clear path for returning the Space ...

An extension of Space Shuttle missions beyond 2010 could see orbiters visiting the International Space Station without the assigned rescue flights that have been in place since the loss of the Shuttle ...

HOUSTON – Space shuttle Endeavour will deliver the final module of the U.S. portion of the International Space Station on the STS-130 mission, now targeted to launch Feb. 7. NASA will preview this ...

Early in the space shuttle program, a friend told me her husband, an aerospace engineer who worked at Michoud, had sought her reaction to a launch. Space shuttle Discovery lifts off from Pad 39A at ...