Here’s a look at NASA’s Space Shuttle Program which ended in 2011 after 135 missions. Facts The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a ...

The teacher, who beat out 11,00 applicants to be the first "average citizen" sent to space, opened up to PEOPLE 40 years ago ...

Wikimedia Commons/NASA The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster On a freezing January morning in 1986, NASA ignored urgent ...