On Feb. 11, 2000, space shuttle Endeavour ... used the radar instruments in Endeavour's payload bay to obtain elevation data on a near global scale. The data produced the most complete, ...

The City of Downey, California began relocating "Inspiration." The new home of NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour, the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, has reached new heights and the ...

25 years ago, NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on mission STS-99 with the groundbreaking Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) onboard. Among the crew was German ESA astronaut Gerhard Thiele.

it is with deep, heartfelt sorrow. I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

Students gathered around model space shuttles ... NASA relaunched shuttle flights on Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center. USA TODAY's page one with the Challenger ...

Read full article: INTERACTIVE: The NASA astronauts and employees who died in service to U.S. space exploration January 28th is a Day of Remembrance honoring the lives of the crew and teacher ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster ... Students gathered around model space shuttles. Teachers switched ...

The crewed shuttle mission for NASA ended moments after ... set to be one of the first “civilians” in space. A NASA investigation later found that cold weather and faulty O-rings on the ...

shuttle Endeavor soared around the planet on its way to the shuttle program's penultimate mission to the Russian Mir Space Station. On that mission, Andy Thomas replaced David Wolf as the resident ...