The Space Shuttle’s iconic design (including the image displayed on the new $1 coins) frequently featured not just the shuttle itself, but its large external fuel tank and two solid rocket boosters.

Virginia senators oppose Texas senators' proposed plan to move Space Shuttle Discovery The proposed “Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act” would transfer the Space Shuttle Discovery out of Virginia.

A bill introduced Thursday could help bring the Space Shuttle Discovery back home to Texas.

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot.

The Columbia disaster was the direct result of a foam strike, but institutional failures beneath the surface were just as deadly. Here's what went wrong.

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Why Did the First Space Shuttle Disaster Happen? Adam Higginbotham discusses his new book, “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space.” ...

Houston Matters How the successes and failures of the shuttle program moved space exploration forward Former astronaut Tom Jones talks about his book, “Space Shuttle Stories,” which chronicles ...

Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted by a 450-foot crane into the site of the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center at the California Science Center.