A group of gold commemorative Sacagawea coins, seven of which traveled into orbit aboard a NASA space shuttle, recently sold for more than $3 million.

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 ...

You can now own a $1 gold coin celebrating one of America’s most revolutionary achievements: the NASA Space Shuttle program. The latest variant in the ongoing American Innovation $1 Coin series is ...

Discover 10 interesting facts about NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). It is the rocket that powers Artemis missions to the ...

Should the city of Houston, which proudly bills itself as "Space City," have a prized Space Shuttle orbiter on public display? More than a decade ago, arguably, the answer was yes. After all, the ...

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 ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is changing the way its employees engage with and remember one of its most severe tragedies. Following the 2003 disaster of the Columbia space ...

Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to ...

Could the final launch of a space shuttle be derailed by rain and thunderstorms? It’s looking like it. We’re heading into the space shuttle program’s final lap, the last NASA-based launch of a shuttle ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly built its own space shuttle to rival America’s NASA program. Called Buran, it ...

Longtime veterans of the space program, Chet Vaughan and Larry Bell, talk about the ceremonies they hold to honor those ...