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 ...

A new flight plan has been filed for a NASA winged orbiter and its jumbo jet transport, four decades after the iconic combination departed on its one and only international goodwill tour. The Lego ...

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle.

Within the next 18 months, the space shuttle Discovery may be disassembled in Washington D.C., transported more than 1,000 miles to Houston and reassembled. But not if grassroots group Keep The ...

Discovery's days of spaceflight may long be over, but the historic NASA space shuttle may soon be on the move again – just not in orbit. As part of Republicans' massive tax and spending legislation ...

The choice of the Boeing 747 as the primary aircraft to ferry the Space Shuttle orbiter was a decision rooted in the jumbo jet’s size, strength, and availability during the 1970s. This unique ...

In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House and seven talented astronauts were wrangled into an orbital battle over soft-drink supremacy. In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House ...