Named Kohoutek 4-55, the nebula was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Planetary nebulae like Kohoutek 4-55 are the ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

NASA The giant gold and silver satellite glittered against the black sky as space shuttle Atlantis closed in on it from below. Commander Hoot Gibson and pilot Guy Gardner flew the approach ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Among Wilmore's accomplishments, he served as a pilot aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis in 2009. The Tennessee native is also married and has two daughters, according to his NASA biography.

Man: Booster ignition and liftoff of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Narrator: Between 1994 and 2007, he flew five missions on the Space Shuttle... Man: I'm getting it, Jim, don't worry. Narrator ...

Atlantis, and Endeavour. An earlier shuttle, Enterprise, was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been marked by ...

On Feb. 7, 2008, he flew his first mission into space on the Space Shuttle Atlantis as part of the STS-122 mission. During the mission, he installed the European Space Agency’s Columbus module ...