which has seen launches of the Apollo program and Space Shuttle, and will see the return of crewed launches from American soil in May 2020. Michael Neufeld SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle ... had flown on a shuttle. Classrooms across America watched the launch.

Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space ... 6, just two days after launch, the astronauts mated Zarya with Unity, a connecting module built in the United States.

During live coverage of the launch, a SpaceX commentator said the payload was a communications satellite. SpaceX has tied the total number of Space Shuttle launches from Kennedy Space Center ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

It was the second, the Columbia, that had the honor of being the first space shuttle to launch into orbit. It blasted off on April 12, 1981, exactly two decades after Yuri Gagarin became the first ...

I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced ... explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Approximately a minute, half after launch from here at the ...