SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The company that makes rocket boosters for the soon-to-be-retired space shuttle said it laid off hundreds of employees Thursday because of uncertainty over the future of the U.S.

The last Space Shuttle launch is scheduled for June 28 when the Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off at the Kennedy Space Center. What do Greater Danbury defense contractors think about the end of the ...

Tomorrow's launch of Endeavour will be the second-to-last in America's space-shuttle program, which has lasted for 30 years. The is expected to draw up to a million people, including President Obama, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most ...

Texas’s two senators are on a crusade to bring one of NASA’s retired space shuttles to Houston, logistical difficulties be damned. A small provision tucked inside the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed ...

The fate of space shuttle Discovery remains in limbo as NASA approaches an important deadline outlined in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. This legislation gave acting NASA ...

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 ...

(Bloomberg) -- Texas’s two senators are on a crusade to bring one of NASA’s retired space shuttles to Houston, logistical difficulties be damned. A small provision tucked inside the One Big Beautiful ...

The past decade has clearly demonstrated the superiority of private entrepreneurship over state-run spaceflight.

About five years from now, a modified Dragon spacecraft will begin to fire its Draco thrusters, pushing the International Space Station out of its orbit and sending the largest object humans have ...