Seven years after SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s cherry red sports car into orbit around our sun, astronomers unwittingly began paying attention to its movements once again.

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On Feb. 3, 2005, 104 people aboard an Afghan airliner died when it crashed in the mountains near Kabul. It was Afghanistan's ...

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On Jan. 24, 1985, space shuttle Discovery took off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on STS-51C, the first space shuttle mission entirely dedicated to the Department of Defense (DOD).

As the space shuttles complete their final missions, curator Valerie Neal at the National Air and Space Museum highlights the spacecraft's history and legacy in manned space flight. Explore ...

(The Center Square) – Changing the name to Donald J. Trump International Airport from Dulles International Airport has been proposed by a freshman congressman from North Carolina. Rep. Addison ...

Byerly’s voice can be heard providing explanation and commentary of Space Shuttle Discovery’s final launch and even in an exhibit in the Smithsonian Institution Museum in Washington, DC.

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Attracting millions of people each year, the Smithsonian National Air and ... like a Concorde supersonic airliner and the space shuttle Discovery as well as an IMAX theater. Visitors report ...

SpaceX's Starship exploded into countless fragments of space debris as it reentered the atmosphere over the Caribbean following its seventh test flight. Listen to Story SpaceX's Starship exploded on ...