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

And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

Dr. James Newman, a former NASA astronaut, reflects on his career and the future of space travel during a visit to the Naval Postgraduate School.

Texas Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are blaming political favoritism for what they call a decades-old snub—and now ...

Trailblazing astronaut Mae Jemison scolded anchor Vladimir Duthiers as she insisted on the importance of the star-studded ...

HOUSTON — Texas U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on Thursday filed new legislation aimed at bringing the Space Shuttle ...

The Space Shuttle Discovery is the back drop as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence chairs the 6th meeting of the National Space Council on "Leading the Next Frontier" at the National Air and Space ...

Space missions are all about precision and planning… or at least, they’re supposed to be. But even in the vast, high-tech ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

The shuttle is currently located at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia ...