Isaacman backs Texas relocation amid warnings that costs could top $150M US President Donald Trump's nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, is "committed to move the Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston,

The Space Shuttle Discovery is currently on display at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center outside Washington. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust WASHINGTON — NASA has selected a shuttle orbiter to transfer to Houston, a move that faces ...

The year was 1977 and then-President Jimmy Carter had a problem with NASA. In a diary entry from that June, Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, made clear his displeasure with the agency, which was in the midst of building the space shuttle but had fallen ...

China’s space administration has reportedly greenlit a new space shuttle project, more than a decade after NASA stopped flying its own iconic Space Shuttle. Unlike NASA’s Space Shuttle, China’s reusable Haolong spacecraft will be uncrewed. It will be ...

Jean Wright's work as a seamstress wasn't typical: this "Sew Sister" had a mission of keeping NASA's Space Shuttle and its astronauts safe. She sewed with materials that could withstand up to 3,200 degrees of heat. On Thursday afternoon, Wright stood by ...