‘Final Flight': Challenger Center to mark tragedy 40 years later

The Challenger Learning Center is honoring its namesake in 2026, the 40th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle tragedy ...

NASA moves to demolish three historic test structures at Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA is moving forward with plans to demolish three iconic structures at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in ...
CNN

NASA: Space shuttle replacement won't fly until 2014

NASA has put off the planned launch of its next-generation Orion spacecraft for a year, a setback to efforts to fly a successor to its aging space shuttles, the space agency announced Monday.

NASA begins infrastructure overhaul under Isaacman as Trump pushes ambitious space exploration goals

NASA begins demolishing outdated facilities in Alabama as new administrator Jared Isaacman launches major infrastructure ...
Space Coast Daily

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Space Shuttle Columbia Rolls Out to Launch Pad 39A Over 40 Years Ago

Preparations for the inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia passed a major milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 29, 1980, with the rollout of the vehicle stack from the Vehicle ...
PRIMETIMER

NASA prepares demolition of historic test facilities at Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA prepares to demolish three historic test facilities at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of a larger project to modernize the campus and archive their histories.
Ars Technica

With Starship, SpaceX encounters an obstacle that haunted NASA’s space shuttles

STARBASE, Texas—For the third day in a row, SpaceX engineers prepared to send the company’s massive Starship rocket into space Tuesday after a technical problem and bad weather grounded the test ...

This Day in History: Nixon authorizes $5.5 million to launch space shuttle program

Exactly 54 years ago today on Jan. 4, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a bill authorizing $5.5 million to develop a ...
Orlando Sentinel

Sierra Space Dream Chaser’s NASA deal upended, 1st flight pushed to late 2026

Sierra Space had been looking to join SpaceX and Northrop Grumman as one of three commercial resupply partners for NASA aiming to fly its Dream Chaser spacecraft to the International Space Station.