Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

Astronauts successfully installed a new $164 million air lock on the international space station. Sunday's Extravehicular Activity (EVA), or space walk, started an hour late after Mike Gernhardt and ...

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

fingers curled around the hand controller for the shuttle’s maneuvering thrusters. Taco was Atlantis’ commander, piloting the orbiter through this crucial docking. This was his third space ...

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

September 9, 2006 – Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the ISS, delivering the P3/P4 truss and its solar wings before undocking September 21 and returning to Earth. September 20, 2006 ...

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 ...

The Apollo Saturn V Center Shutterstock Back in the main building, next up on the tour was a tryst with Atlantis. After the Saturn V reveal, we expected to be surprised, but nothing could have ...