Space Shuttle Program Manager Bill Parsons today announced several key leadership changes within the office as it reorganizes and evolves following the Columbia accident. “This is a critical time for ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On July 21, 2011, space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at ...

While the Apollo missions are the most famous, the Space Transportation System (STS) shuttle program was the most productive in NASA's history. From 1980 to 2011, NASA launched 135 missions. Over 350 ...

As NASA prepares for its final shuttle mission, a look at more than three decades of triumphs and tragedies Formally introduced by President Nixon on Jan. 5, 1972, the shuttle program set out, in the ...

The following is an excerpt from The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Engagement after Apollo by Amy Paige Kaminski. The book will be published June 11, 2024, by the ...

This line from a recent NASA Inspector General report jumped out at me: In addition to managing Shuttle funding challenges, the transition and retirement activities associated with the end of the ...

When NASA's space shuttle program was announced back in 1972, it was billed as a major advance — a key step in humanity's quest to exploit and explore space. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

*Leroy Chiao in space. Courtesy of NASA.*On July 8, NASA will launch the Space Shuttle Atlantis into orbit for the final time, effectively ending the 30-year-old space shuttle program with a big, ...

An inexpensive space truck for big payloads. A manned spacecraft that could do on-orbit repairs, shuttle astronauts to the space station, do some on-orbit experiments and help deploy complex station ...