Discovery first flew in August 1984, completed 39 trips into space, and remains NASA's oldest surviving shuttle ... into its retirement home" at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...

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 ...

NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery has been reunited with one of its last crew members. The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum debuted Robonaut-2 (R2), NASA's first dexterous humanoid ...

explaining that NASA's return to the moon will require a rocket more powerful than the ones that carried the Space Shuttle into Low Earth Orbit. The new Space Launch System (SLS) will generate ...

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 ...

Today marks 39th anniversary of Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, which took lives of seven crew members, including Ronald ...

A few months later, Buzz launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. I’ll never forget ... Today, Buzz is on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, with a plaque reading: “Gift ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy ...

The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983. After test glide and landings upon release from aircraft in 1977, the Space Shuttle began orbital flights ...