R: The Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise inside of Marshall Space Flight Center's Dynamic Test Stand for Mated Vertical Ground Vibration tests (MVGVT). Images: NASA These are the voyages of the space ...

In 1977, the United Kingdom's King Charles III, a prince at the time, met with NASA astronauts Fred Haise, Gordon Fullerton, ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy ...

An earlier shuttle, Enterprise, was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been marked by very public tragedy.

One shuttle’s name even made reference to the television spacecraft, Enterprise. The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983. After test glide and ...

On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle program. “I have decided today that the United States should proceed at ...