The Space Shuttle program operated for 30 years as reusable vehicles transporting astronauts and supplies, with six shuttles built, two of which were tragically lost before the fleet retired in 2011.

What do we do with the International Space Station when the facility is retired? That seems to be the question hovering over us right now. NASA’s report on the rationale for ISS decommission suggests ...

For the past two decades, one of the Midwest’s most extensive collections of space-flight artifacts has been housed in an unlikely location in Bonne Terre. Soon, The Space Museum and Grissom Center ...

Retired NASA astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger takes selfies in front of a super-sized space station window in the Museum of Flight’s “Home Beyond Earth” exhibit. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) The ...

Seven National Air and Space Museum aircraft on display in your neighborhood Mark Strauss A distinctive feature of the Fw-190D-9 was its long nose, which had been extended to accommodate a larger ...

'Apollo' is the largest temporary exhibition to ever be hosted by the Intrepid Museum. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Given it ...

The space shuttle era was a time of many firsts for space exploration. Most prominently, it marked the regular usage of the first reusable spacecraft to carry humans into low Earth orbit. In its ...