NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, built to support the agency's Artemis 2 mission and usher in a new era of crewed flights to the moon, headed out from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) here at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida this morning (Jan. 17), beginning a 4-mile (6.4 kilometers) trek to Launch Complex-39B (LC-39B).

NASA has put off the planned launch of its next-generation Orion spacecraft for a year, a setback to efforts to fly a successor to its aging space shuttles, the space agency announced Monday. "September 2014 is when we are saying we will launch the first crew on the Orion,

Space Shuttle Discovery on display at the Smithsonian. Days after being sworn in as the head of NASA, Jared Isaacman indicated uncertainty regarding the move of the Space Shuttle Discovery from Washington to Houston. Congress allocated $85 million as part ...

One of NASA's last remaining structures unique to supporting the space shuttle is no more. The Mate-Demate Device (MDD), which for 35 years was used at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to mount and remove the space shuttles from the back of their transport ...

NASA faces strategic decisions and competition in a rapidly changing space exploration industry dominated by commercial providers.

On Jan. 16, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on its 28th mission, STS-107. NASA had five additional space shuttle missions planned for 2003, but STS-107 was the only one focused on scientific research;

In 1977, the United Kingdom's King Charles III, a prince at the time, met with NASA astronauts Fred Haise, Gordon Fullerton, Richard H. Truly and Joe Engle, the crew of the Space Shuttle Enterprise. The meeting occurred at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

The Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial is seen during a wreath laying ceremony that was part of NASA's Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, at