Journalists covering the space program before the shuttle missions ended in 2011 would relay every detail they could unearth about the launch and its payloads. This meant that even secret NRO ...

NASA's acting administrator, Sean Duffy, identified a retired NASA space shuttle to be moved to "a non-profit near the Johnson Space Center" in Houston, Texas, on Aug. 5, 2025.

A NASA webpage on the shuttle mission refers ambiguously to “technology research.” Coca-Cola mentions its plaudit as being the first cola in space, and its subsequent orbital soft drink ...

NASA officials brush up on King's English By Associated PressJuly 15, 2007 Space Shuttle Endeavour sits on a launch pad earlier this week at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla ...

The NASA Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1981 to 2011.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn announced that acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy approved sending a "retired NASA space shuttle" to Houston as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Houston – the city that orchestrated NASA's space shuttle missions but received the ultimate snub of not getting one to display – could finally get its due. The two U.S. senators from Texas ...

The consequences for the space program as a whole, however, are much grimmer: Between the Columbia tragedy and Sept. 30, 2005, NASA spent about $10 billion on the shuttle -- 26 percent of its ...

Here’s how it works. NASA's space shuttle Endeavour launches into space on Aug. 8, 2007 on the STS-118 construction mission to the International Space Station. (Image credit: NASA ...

The shuttle Atlantis (foreground) sits on Launch Pad A and Endeavour on Launch Pad B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. For the first time since July 2001, two shuttles are on the pads at ...