On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle ...

The shuttle even did a promotional tour of the area, flying into the Central Coast base on the back of a Boeing 747.

“I have decided today that the United States should ... into near space, by routinizing it,” Nixon said. It would be more than a decade before the first shuttle, Columbia, launched from ...

NASA has long been highly visible and is among the most celebrated programs in modern United States history. Some generations ...

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SpaceX's Starship will fly for the seventh time ever early next week, if all goes according to plan. SpaceX announced today ...

The simulation involved two full teams of flight controllers, the Sierra Space team in Colorado and the NASA team in Houston, ...

SpaceX completed its first launch from Kennedy Space Center for the year on Wednesday morning. A Falcon 9 carrying 21 ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is set to make its very first trip from Central Florida early Friday morning. Learn more: ...

The Shooting Star's legacy remains as the aircraft that that pushed America into the Jet Age, and secured Lockheed Aircraft's ...

and for the first time since the Space Force became an independent branch of the military. The first Space Force guardian was sent into space a few months later, on Sept. 28, 2024. The U.S. has ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) was founded in 1959 at Greenbelt, Maryland. It launched its first weather satellite SIROS in 1960. GSFC at Greenbelt has 1121 acres for its 50 facilities.