On Sept. 19, 1996, the Space Shuttle Atlantis rendezvoused with Russia's Mir space station to deliver supplies and equipment.

The roughly 700 islands that make up the Bahamas lure millions of visitors to this paradise's white sandy shores, duty-free shops, fishing and scuba diving excursions and luxuriou ...

Six-foot by two-foot sections of Mantorville limestone that were once the steps to Old Central School have been cut down into blocks that form the pillars to Mrs. William J. Mayo’s driveway.

Vilnius introduced fully electric passenger boats into its scheduled river transport network, claiming the service to be the ...

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.

Megan McArthur retired after a career that included traveling into space twice and becoming the first woman to pilot the ...

Twenty-five years ago, Lincoln native Scott Altman was preparing to pilot the space shuttle Atlantis. This and more in ...

McArthur launched on two spaceflights, logging 213 days in orbit across her nearly 25 years, and held leadership positions at ...

SpaceX called off a launch attempt Sunday after detecting a leak in the plumbing that flows super-cold liquid oxygen ...

The Department of Land and Natural Resources reported today that water intrusion has occurred through different parts of the 75-foot passenger vessel that ran aground near Kewalo Basin Saturday. The ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA is fueling space shuttle Atlantis for its afternoon liftoff. Atlantis is scheduled to blast off at 2:28 p.m. on a mission to stockpile the International Space Station with ...

This year's U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony was also a reunion of sorts, as the two honorees took to the stage under the spacecraft on which they once crossed paths. NASA's Kennedy ...