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.

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 ...

then descend to Earth and land like a space shuttle roughly 45 days later at KSC's Launch and Landing Facility. August 2024 story:Sierra Space's Dream Chaser space plane to use new Kennedy Space ...