Washington, DC – Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today announced a Full Committee hearing scheduled for Thursday, March 20, at 2:30 p.m.

After years of dedicated work, Los Angeles' California Science Center prepares to open the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Downey, CA - October 17: A crown washes as movers transport pieces of the Space Shuttle Inspiration, a full-scale mock-up of a ...

The postwar decades crackled with technological ambition. As defense contractors sketched the future of aviation, the space race accelerated with new spacecraft designs. Amid this ferment, a quieter ...

Leland Melvin said that flying a space shuttle was significantly less nerve-wracking than being racially profiled by the ...

Dr. LeConte Cathey discusses satellites, the space shuttle, and maintaining technology for space. Join Dr. LeConte Cathey from the University of South Carolina’s Department of Physics and Astronomy on ...

Indeed, some envision a future epoch of manned space exploration, even of space cities and space hotels. They just think the shuttle which is confined to low Earth orbit, like a tourist who putts ...

Mike Massimino is a retired NASA astronaut and veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.

Unlike many people, University of Arizona alumnus Francis “Dick” Scobee is on his way to making a lifetime dream become reality. A major in the U.S. Air Force, Scobee, 39, is in training as an ...

The STS-51L mission clears the tower at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 28, 1986. Credit: NASA / Courtesy Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s morning newsletter for ...

At slower than a walking pace, the prototype that helped launch America’s space shuttle program paraded down Downey streets Thursday morning on its way to a temporary housing location in preparation ...