Exactly 54 years ago today on Jan. 4, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a bill authorizing $5.5 million to develop a ...

Space Shuttle Program Manager Bill Parsons today announced several key leadership changes within the office as it reorganizes and evolves following the Columbia accident. “This is a critical time for ...

You can now own a $1 gold coin celebrating one of America’s most revolutionary achievements: the NASA Space Shuttle program. The latest variant in the ongoing American Innovation $1 Coin series is ...

On January 4, 1970, NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to ever set foot on the moon.

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 ...

NASA today announced the selection of N. Wayne Hale Jr. as manager of the Space Shuttle Program. He has been deputy manager since July 2003 and succeeds Bill Parsons, who returned to NASA’s Stennis ...

For millions of Americans, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11. On that chilly January day in 1986, ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman recently signaled that the idea to relocate Discovery to Texas faces serious financial and ...

The following is an excerpt from The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Engagement after Apollo by Amy Paige Kaminski. The book will be published June 11, 2024, by the ...

NASA’s long-promised space plane is finally on the cusp of leaving the runway behind and heading for orbit, a decade after ...

REPORTED THE WORDS OF JIMMY CARTER LIVE ON. FAR FROM HOME AS WELL. NASA’S VOYAGER ONE, THE MOST DISTANT HUMAN MADE OBJECT FROM EARTH, CARRIES A MESSAGE FROM HIM. HISTORY MAY SHOW OTHER PRESIDENTS WITH ...