In this adapted excerpt, he recounts his STS-98 space shuttle crew’s February ... riding herd on the checklist and our network of a half-dozen laptop computers. Marsha, on her fifth mission ...

Back on Feb 7, 1984, McCandless approached his maximum distance from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger ... Despite running through his flight checklist and all his years of training, his ...

It’s thought to be one of the most enjoyable parts of the wedding-planning process: creating your registry. However, without ...

Whether they are executing a precision rendezvous and docking maneuver with the Mir space station or greasing ... their time between working the reentry checklist and grabbing final glimpses ...

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

If Congress decides to grant Houston a space shuttle, Space Center CEO William Harris says the city is far more ready than it was a decade ago.

Since 2012, the space shuttle Discovery has been the centerpiece of the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly ...

Texas Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are blaming political favoritism for what they call a decades-old snub—and now they’re pushing to bring the Space Shuttle Discovery back to Houston Both ...

Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, both Republicans, introduced a bill on Thursday that would move space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Virginia to a nonprofit ...

CHANTILLY, Va. — The Space Shuttle Discovery has been a prolific reminder of our nation’s space exploration mission at the National Air & Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Fairfax ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A bill introduced Thursday could help bring the Space Shuttle Discovery back home to Texas. “The first word spoken from the moon was ‘Houston.’ To honor that legacy ...