With the development of the American Space Shuttle, the Soviets again began to look at space planes. The designs for the old Spiral could have been resurrected. This was not to be. The American ...

The US military's classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days. The space plane blasted into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in December ...

A spacecraft used to bring food, fuel and other supplies to the International Space Station has been damaged, putting future ...

The director of 'Spacewoman,' about the Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a space shuttle mission, had its European ...

ShuttleFest III continues the legacy of the Space Shuttle Era workers. Join astronauts to artists during this celebration of ...

NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned to Earth from a weeklong mission at the International Space Station that ...

Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been marked by very public tragedy. On 28 January 1986, Challenger was set to carry the first American civilian into space.

Two months ago, Sally Ride was literally in the clouds as the first American woman in space, but ever since she and the crew from the Space shuttle Challenger touched down, Sally Ride has been ...

One of our biggest stories of the past four decades took place in 1995, when an American space shuttle docked with the Russian space station Mir. Despite previous cold war animosity, Russian ...

This small capsule could carry two astronauts into space at a time. NASA created the Gemini program to help the U.S. get ready for the Apollo missions that would later send astronauts to the moon.

Having watched Sally Ride become the first American woman in space ... At first, she worked at the space centre and on computer software at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory.