The shuttle even did a promotional tour of the area, flying into the Central Coast base on the back of a Boeing 747.

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 insulting phrase for ...

On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle ...

Once again, we're back with our annual power ranking of US launch companies. 2024 was the third year Ars compiled a list of ...

Blue Origin's massive New Glenn rocket comes in at a towering 320 feet tall — which is equivalent to a 32-story skyscraper.

President Jimmy Carter's impact on the U.S. space program honored in Florida where so many of the nation's space ambitions ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lists the mission as Starlink 6-71. As of Sunday, SpaceX confirm ed they are targeting a three-hour window which opens at 12:21 p.m.. The SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

As competition in the new space race ramps up with China, the United States is preparing to deorbit the International Space ...

Now McCandless III has teamed up with acclaimed space journalist and podcaster Emily Carney to offer an informal and ...

NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil ...