The International Space Station is seen from the space shuttle Atlantis on July 19, 2011, after it left the orbiting complex.

The former Arizona congresswoman had to learn how to walk and talk again after she was shot in the head January 8, 2011 ...

Before he found himself a target of the Trump administration as a US senator, Mark Kelly was a NASA astronaut who flew to ...

Mark Kelly, a Democratic senator from Arizona, was recently censured. Prior to his career in elected office, Kelly was a NASA astronaut.

We're revisiting live broadcasts from Cape Canaveral, with one of the local reporters who covered the launch in real time.

That kind of strong leadership and great teamwork are the real safety systems of spaceflight.

The Challenger Learning Center is honoring its namesake in 2026, the 40th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle tragedy ...

Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, both Republicans of Texas, want the space shuttle Discovery to be moved to Space Center Houston from its current location at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near ...

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A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...

Three Chinese astronauts are stuck in space after their shuttle was used to cart another group back to Earth, leaving them in the dust. Astronauts Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang, all with the ...

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