The first woman to pilot and command a NASA space shuttle was in Tulsa on Thursday. Eileen Collins was at the Tulsa Air and ...

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space ...

On Sept. 19, 1996, the Space Shuttle Atlantis rendezvoused with Russia's Mir space station to deliver supplies and equipment. The mission also picked up NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid, who had spent a ...

Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to ...

UCLA and UC San Diego grad Megan McArthur retires at 54 after two decades with NASA. The space and ocean scientist's work ...

NASA officials said Monday they might go ahead with Tuesday's launch of the space shuttle Discovery even if a fuel sensor problem recurs that scrubbed the flight nearly two weeks ago. Discovery is set ...

As a citizen astronaut and engineer, she is working to promote space education for kids in Mexico and all of Latin America ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

On Sept. 21, 2003, NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons came to an end. After 14 years of exploration, the Galileo ...

The Space Shuttle is composed of three primary components: the Orbiter Vehicle, Solid Rocket Boosters, and the External Tank.

Seven $1 coins that once traveled to space sold today in an auction. The sale prices ranged from $120,000 up to $550,001.

Seven gold coins, once flown more than 2 million miles in orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1999 and valued at ...