Ahead of the iconic spacecraft? About a 1,400 mile journey across the country to its new home in Texas.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz got language into President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" that creates a path for ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

The space shuttle Discovery performs a 360-degree flip in 2009 in a handout image from NASA taken by the International Space Station's crew. Discovery operated from 1984 to 2011.

The space shuttle program would go on to become one of NASA’s most celebrated. After 135 missions carrying more than 350 astronauts into orbit, the shuttles were retired in 2011 .

More than $10 billion in funds are included in Trump’s tax and spending bill for NASA programs previously targeted by the ...

From the archives: Watch CBS News coverage of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on Feb. 1, 2003, in the video above. Twenty years ago this Wednesday — on Feb. 1, 2003, at 8:48:39 a.m. EST ...

Explorers trudged the Atlantic Ocean searching for World War II artifacts, but they stumbled on something else — a 20-foot-long piece of debris from the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was ...

These are the voyages of the space shuttle Enterprise, boldly renamed by former President Gerald Ford after a massive letter-writing campaign from Star Trek fans.. In 1974, construction of the ...

The space shuttle Endeavour's final flight was on May 16, 2011. The orbiter's home now is in California. Tony Gray and Tom Farrar/NASA ...

The space shuttle Discovery performs a 360-degree flip in 2009 in a handout image from NASA taken by the International Space Station's crew. Discovery operated from 1984 to 2011. NASA/Getty Images ...