Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...

NASA hasn't closed the door on the possibility — and the man in line to be the agency's next chief is a champion of the idea.

STS-31 was Discovery's 10th launch, and it was the 35th space shuttle mission overall. One day after reaching orbit (April 25), the STS-31 crew deployed Hubble, and then spent most of the duration ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA astronaut Mike Massimino smiles for a photo during STS-125 — the fifth and final ...

The 17th launch of the space shuttle took place 40 years ago today, kicking off the Spacelab 3 mission (STS-51B). [...] ...

On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. The space shuttle Columbia safely touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

ACTION NEWS 8 ANCHOR PAUL DUDLEY HAS MORE ON HIS STORY AND THE FUTURE OF SPACE TRAVEL.....## NATS NEIL ARMSTRONG : "LT IS ONE SMALL STEP : "LT IS ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN.. ONE GIANT LEAP FOR ...

on Pettit, NASA's 70-year-old astronaut, has safely landed in Kazakhstan, marking the successful conclusion of his fourth spaceflight, a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station ...

The budget threatens to kill Lunar Gateway and the Mars Sample Return mission, along with phasing out the gigantic SLS rocket ...

In 2008, Pettit was part of a Space Shuttle mission delivering equipment to the space station. Pettit's fourth and most recent spaceflight got off the ground in September, when he lifted off with ...