Following a launch scrub a week earlier, space shuttle Columbia took to the skies on Nov. 12, 1981, for its second trip into space. Astronauts Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly rode the reusable, ...

Thirty years ago this father-son duo Chris and Kenneth Bray attended the first ever space shuttle launch. They never went to another launch again, until last week's final voyage, where they recreated ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

In what may be her first public appearance since being shot on January 8th, Gabrielle Giffords will most likely attend her husband's space shuttle launch next month. Her husband, commander Mark Kelly, ...

On Oct. 26, a SpaceX liftoff from Florida saw SpaceX break its own annual launch record. Soon, Florida's Space Coast will see another record broken.