The Propulsion and Structural Test Facility, also known as the T-tower, was built in 1957 by the Army Ballistic Missile ...

The rise of the commercial space industry precipitated a steeper decline at Rocketdyne. Boeing sold the Rocketdyne division ...

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), one of the architects of the Discovery moving plan, said that Isaacman is on board. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

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 ...

The Harvard Undergraduate Association’s Executive Team announced on Sunday that the Winter Shuttle Program would return this year to subsidize student transport from campus to Logan Airport or South ...

Texas lawmakers have demanded the Discovery shuttle be moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but daunting technical challenges remain—and Virginia officials have dug in against the move. The ...

Three Texas lawmakers accuse the Smithsonian Institution of "illegal lobbying" to block the relocation of the Space Shuttle Discovery from its Virginia museum to Houston, prompting a request for a ...

Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...

When Space Shuttle Discovery touched down for the last time at Kennedy Space Center Runway 15 on March 9, 2011, it brought to an end a 27-year career of spaceflight. Discovery flew to space 39 times, ...