The shuttle, carrying a crew of six astronauts, about 12,300kg of gyroscopes, ammonia tanks and other equipment, lifted off at 2.28pm (0128 AEDT). The 11-day space outing, the fifth and final shuttle ...

Atlantis emerged just before dawn from the massive Vehicle Assembly Building and, riding atop a 76-wheeled platform, began the 16KM trek to the Kennedy Space Centre's main tourist stop. About 200 ...

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 ...

The inspection - which found nothing wrong - was prompted by the sighting of an unknown object that apparently shook loose from Atlantis during pre-landing checkouts of the shuttle's body flaps and ...

A Republican-led plan to move to Houston the Discovery space shuttle, an iconic holding of the National Air and Space Museum since 2012, has set off a fight for the future of the orbiter, which the ...

Lawmakers pushing to move the iconic spacecraft from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to Texas just got the Department of Justice involved. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Texas Senators have ...

The Boeing 747 has taken many forms in its decades of service. First introduced in 1970, the Queen of the Skies has flown for airlines all over the world. It has also had a handful of side gigs over ...

Have you ever dreamed about hopping into a Minecraft rocket and soaring off to join the ranks of the best space games? Then look no further than Cubic Odyssey, because Atypical Games has made that ...

She's the astronaut who smashed through the glass ceiling. And kept on going. Eileen Collins made history as the first woman to pilot and command a Nasa spacecraft - but despite her remarkable ...