The Lego Icons Shuttle Carrier Aircraft set recreates the prototype Enterprise and the ... Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the first of 135 missions that it and five ...

America's first space station, Skylab, helped pave the way for permanent operations in low-Earth orbit 52 years ago this year.

On May 7, 1992, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on its first flight. Endeavour was the fifth and last space shuttle that ...

The set will be available to LEGO Insiders loyalty club members from May 15 and for general purchase from May 18.

Humanity has come a long way since the first satellite was launched ... That is a substantial reduction compared to NASA's space shuttle, which put the launch cost at $54,500 per kilogram.

The 17th launch of the space shuttle took place 40 years ago today, kicking off the Spacelab 3 mission (STS-51B). [...] ...

“That was the cool and new thing about Hubble when it was first put up in space -- that ... in different capacities on all five of the Space Shuttle Hubble Space Telescope service missions.

NASA's Launch Services Program, which books rocket launches for the agency's science missions, used a Falcon 9 rocket for the first time ... the 1980s that NASA's Space Shuttle would be more ...

His latest is Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space ... concerns from engineers at the launch site. The space shuttle was the most remarkable flying ...

We kind of put all of our eggs into the space shuttle ... enterprise. And of course, that’s worked out remarkably well and we’re frankly just living in the ripple effects of that, where launch ...

This week was monumental for NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission. The four small satellites sent to low Earth orbit opened their eyes metaphorically for the ...

Hubble launched on April 24, 1990, stowed inside the cargo bay of space shuttle Discovery. STS-31 was Discovery's 10th launch ... But the first images beamed back to Earth from Hubble — NASA's ...