Houston's Created Its Own Problem: The Unnecessary Fight To Snatch Up The Discovery Space Shuttle Continues

But the story has become so much more than just moving a space shuttle from Virginia to Texas. Unfortunately embroiled in ...

NASA Announces Its Artemis III Astronauts

Four astronauts will be part of the next mission in the agency’s program to return humans to the surface of the moon by 2028.

Texas and the Smithsonian are locked in a custody battle over a space shuttle

Two senators earmarked $85 million for the move to Houston—but safely shipping an 86-ton shuttle orbiter cross-country could ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Inside NASA's space shuttle Challenger disaster that could have been stopped 40 years ago

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

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If you've already built your Space Shuttle in CityVille, you can now launch the shuttle into outer space, as a new series of ...
Houston Public Media

NASA begins contracting process to potentially relocate Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston

Space Shuttle Discovery on display at the Smithsonian. NASA is beginning the process of potentially relocating Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian in Virginia to Houston. The federal space ...
Ars Technica

With Starship, SpaceX encounters an obstacle that haunted NASA’s space shuttles

STARBASE, Texas—For the third day in a row, SpaceX engineers prepared to send the company’s massive Starship rocket into space Tuesday after a technical problem and bad weather grounded the test ...
The National Interest

Moving the Space Shuttle to Texas Just Got a Lot More Complicated

NASA has clarified that any attempt to move the Discovery space shuttle from Virginia to Texas could not involve its disassembly—more or less making the project impossible. Texas Republican Senator ...

Eileen Collins was the first woman to command a space shuttle. A new documentary shows how she got there

‘Spacewoman’ chronicles how Collins persevered against odds to become the first female space shuttle pilot and commander. The ...
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From Columbia to Discovery: The five largest NASA space shuttles in history

The Space Shuttle programme, developed by NASA, introduced the world’s first reusable spacecraft. Operating from 1981 to 2011, the shuttles carried out 135 missions, completing over 21,000 orbits and ...
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Why NASA's Space Shuttle Hitched Rides On Top Of A Boeing 747

Now retired, the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) were a pair of planes designed to transport orbiters from their landing sites back to Kennedy Space Center throughout the Space Shuttle Program, one of ...
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NASA's make-or-break moon shot

The Artemis program is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. Could a successful mission quiet its critics? The 322-foot-tall rocket stands ready on the launch pad at the Kennedy ...