Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

It’s sad, but the closest the space shuttle gets to retirement, the higher the public interest. Perhaps that’s why NASA is pushing now the most amazing videos of the mighty spacecraft, thanks to the ...

Up and away they go, humans sailing off this Earth and into space. The first half of the video is a joy, a testament to the ingenuity and courage that has repeatedly lifted astronauts right off the ...