According to a news release from Cornyn's office, Space Shuttle Discovery is owned by the federal government. It is currently in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy ...

But a breadbox shape for a space shuttle is something someone really ... which makes the rocket carrying it look like a school kid with a backpack, would have benefited missions, and no one ...

Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the ... NASA ran a competition for U.S. schools to name the next shuttle. About 6,000 schools participated in the contest, which ...

The space shuttle Endeavour is wrapped in protective shrink wrap and is parked next to its external fuel tanks as it awaits being lifted by a 450-foot crane and placed next to its fuel tanks next ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger broke ... she turned to Christa McAuliffe, the high school social studies teacher turned astronaut. “The next time I see you, we’ll be in space ...

But to me, a 22-year-old senior at the Medill School of Journalism — nearly ... white exhaust plumes streaming behind it. “It’s the Space Shuttle Challenger, Bob,” he said.

Over the next ... school. Later, she worked as a medical doctor and medical officer for the Peace Corps. Jemison joined the astronaut training program in 1987 and flew aboard the Space Shuttle ...

“The nation,” Mr. Truly, who was by then a vice admiral, said at the time, “is going to have the shuttle as the backbone of its space program well into the next century.” Image Mr. Truly ...

EXPOSITION PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The retired Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California ... Oschin Air and Space Center, coming in the next few years, ABC7 got to take a special look inside.