Space Shuttle Program Manager Bill Parsons today announced several key leadership changes within the office as it reorganizes and evolves following the Columbia accident. “This is a critical time for ...

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 ...

NASA today announced the selection of N. Wayne Hale Jr. as manager of the Space Shuttle Program. He has been deputy manager since July 2003 and succeeds Bill Parsons, who returned to NASA’s Stennis ...

The following is an excerpt from The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Engagement after Apollo by Amy Paige Kaminski. The book will be published June 11, 2024, by the ...

You can now own a $1 gold coin celebrating one of America’s most revolutionary achievements: the NASA Space Shuttle program. The latest variant in the ongoing American Innovation $1 Coin series is ...

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a full size model space shuttle? While it never quite made it to space, the full-size original space shuttle prototype built in 1972 as part of Rockwell International's ...

For millions of Americans, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11. On that chilly January day in 1986, ...

REPORTED THE WORDS OF JIMMY CARTER LIVE ON. FAR FROM HOME AS WELL. NASA’S VOYAGER ONE, THE MOST DISTANT HUMAN MADE OBJECT FROM EARTH, CARRIES A MESSAGE FROM HIM. HISTORY MAY SHOW OTHER PRESIDENTS WITH ...