Flying from Orlando, FL the crew recorded on video rare footage of Discovery's final launch as it embarks on STS-133.

Video of SpaceX's 5.2m fairing—designed in-house by SpaceX—undergoing testing in the world's largest vacuum chamber at NASA Glenn Research Center -- Plum Brook Station. SpaceX's fairing is used to protect a satellite during launch. Separation occurs when the rocket is traveling over 4x faster than a

A look at the James Webb Space Telescope, its mission and the incredible technological challenge this mission presents. The Webb is now in the final stages of testing in the U.S. before being shipped to French Guiana ahead of its expected launch from there at the end of October, 2021.

Soyuz,a Russian spacecraft carrying a three-man crew blasted off Friday from a launch pad in the steppes of Kazakhstan, for the first time taking a shorter path to the International Space Station. Instead of the two-day approach maneuver used by Soyuz spacecraft in the past, this journey to the stat...

NASA's Space shuttle last mission lift off. Shuttle Endeavour went to space for the last time on May 16th, 2011 at 8:56 AM EDT. By Wednesday May 18th they will have reached the space station and their return back after a 16 day mission is expected by early June, 2011

Atlantis has blasted off on NASA's last space shuttle launch. The historic liftoff occurred Friday morning,July 8th, 2011, 30 years and three months after the very first shuttle flight. Four astronauts are riding Atlantis to orbit. The shuttle is bound for the International Space Station, making on...

With the STS-133 crew in tow, space shuttle Discovery lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, Feb. 24. at 4:53 p.m. Eastern -- her final ride ...returning on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 11:56 AM ET

Mars Dune Alpha, the 3D-printed Habitat Located at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Will Aid in Long-duration Science Missions ICON, developer of advanced construction technologies including robotics, software, and building materials, announced it has been awarded a subcontract through Jacob

A Soyruz rocket launched NASA's Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts into space for what will be a year-long mission aboard the International Space Station. It is NASA's first-of-its-kind study of identical twins to learn more about how long-term spaceflight affects the human body — by sending one

Twenty-seven years ago, Sally Ride became the first American woman in
space on Jun 18, 1983. She accomplished this historic milestone when
she flew aboard Space Shuttle Challenger as a mission specialist for
the six-day STS-7 mission. Ride, a southern California native, was also
a mission specia...