A computer-generated video shows two of the SOviet Union's never-realized space projects, the Buran spaceplane and the Mir-2 ...

Russia Quietly Changed Its Space Station Plans. Here's What That Means The proposed Russian Orbital Station will stick to a ...

Moscow plans to send the Mir space station to its end over the Pacific Ocean, prompting concerns that errant station chunks could threaten nearby nations such as Japan or Australia. The 135-ton ...

At the time, NASA was preparing to launch the space shuttle, Atlantis, in June 1995 on a mission to dock with the Russian Mir ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is humanity's most expensive object and has been in orbit for 25 years. Read its ...

NASA’s announcement that it will exchange U.S. astronaut Michael Foale for David Wolf on Mir via a space shuttle flight to be launched tonight follows two hearings on Capitol Hill last week. NASA ...

Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, both Republicans of Texas, want the space shuttle Discovery to be moved to Space Center Houston from its current location at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near ...

On this day in 1995, Space Shuttle Atlantis rolled to a stop on the runway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, completing a successful and historic eight-day journey in orbit. The mission, designated ...

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...

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Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...