On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. The space shuttle ...

"It's 13 minutes of things that have to go right," NASA said of the reentry and splashdown, the first with astronauts from ...

The Artemis II astronauts are making a perilous return to Earth after a historic moon mission. Here's how to watch the ...

The Artemis II mission around the moon will be a brilliant last hurrah for several space shuttle engines and booster rocket parts that first flew as far back as 1982.

While I was leading a tour of the National Air and Space Museum in January 2026, a visitor posed this insightful question: ...

Forty years ago, on , NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia, attached to an external tank and twin solid rocket boosters, lifted off ...