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 ...

The International Space Station and a space shuttle, as seen here, joined other historic spacecraft and scenes from space history as part of a student-led drone show for the opening of the Space ...

It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off. The crew had been taken twenty stories up the launch tower in a lift, with all seven members dressed in their ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Space Force leaders aim to increase their collaboration with allies, saying military-to-military relationships remain strong—despite White House policies that have ...

The ferry ship then carried out an automated rendezvous with the space station, moving in for docking at the multiport Prichal module at 4:57 a.m. as the two spacecraft sailed 260 miles above ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian crewmates arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday on board a Russian spacecraft. A Soyuz booster rocket lifted off as scheduled from the ...

On April 7, 1983, astronauts took the first spacewalk outside of a space shuttle during mission STS-6. This was the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Challenger.

Whoever it was, thinkers and doers in the space sector seem to have taken that to heart. Every day, we learn of some clever new creation, some device or contrivance that can, say, shape light from ...

Axiom Space will fly two Orbital Data Center nodes on Kepler Communications satellites. Credit: Axiom Space COLORADO SPRINGS — Axiom Space will fly two data centers on Kepler Communications ...

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The Space Systems Command has awarded National Security Space Launch, or NSSL, Phase 3 Lane 2 contracts with a cumulative amount of $13.68 billion to three companies. The firm-fixed-price ...

GPS III, built by Lockheed Martin, is the Space Force's newest model of GPS satellites. (Lockheed Martin) The Space Force plans to launch the next GPS III satellite in late May as part of a rapid ...