Discovery first flew in August 1984, completed 39 trips into space, and remains NASA's oldest surviving shuttle. Most famously, it delivered the Hubble telescope into space and returned Mercury ...

The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983. That was all in the future as a Boeing 747 jet carried a Space Shuttle to Vandenberg (then an Air Force ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy ...

The loss of space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, and the Apollo 1 fire bring reflection and inspiration for a new future ...