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 ...

Congress approved some funding to relocate the Space Shuttle Discovery to Space Center Houston, which prompted some pushback ...

NASA today announced the selection of N. Wayne Hale Jr. as manager of the Space Shuttle Program. He has been deputy manager since July 2003 and succeeds Bill Parsons, who returned to NASA’s Stennis ...

Nearly two-and-a-half years after the space shuttle Columbia exploded over Texas while reentering Earth, a second fatal accident that killed all seven crew members, Discovery (STS-114) launched on ...

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 ...

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 ...

On July 21, 2011, space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, marking the last time a space shuttle would ever touch down again. The space shuttle program made use ...

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 ...

Sept. 20, 2006 — -- As the Space Shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth in the next day or so, every astronaut and much of the aerospace community is going to be distracted by the fact that the ...

REPORTED THE WORDS OF JIMMY CARTER LIVE ON. FAR FROM HOME AS WELL. NASA’S VOYAGER ONE, THE MOST DISTANT HUMAN MADE OBJECT FROM EARTH, CARRIES A MESSAGE FROM HIM. HISTORY MAY SHOW OTHER PRESIDENTS WITH ...