A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with ...

25 years ago: Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully repairs the International Space Station On May 29, 2000, Space Shuttle Atlantis reentered earth’s atmosphere and landed at the Kennedy Space ...

Kennedy Space Center isn’t just where iconic missions like Apollo and Skylab launched from, it’s also a massive hub for space exploration attracting over 1.7 million visitors a year (Explore). While ...

Atlantis. Discovery. Enterprise. Endeavor. Challenger. Columbia. For three decades, NASA was in the Space Shuttle age with 135 missions. Most were filled with historic firsts. And, of course, there ...

Back at the main complex, make your next stop the Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit. It’s hard to miss -- look for the enormous replica rocket boosters out front alongside the bright-orange ...

Four years later, the torch was carried on the Atlantis Shuttle as the Games moved to Sydney. In 2013, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazansky went a step further by taking the torch on a ...

Before the summer games in Atlanta in 1996, an Olympic torch flew aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Four years later, another torch reached space via the shuttle Atlantis prior to Sydney’s ...

While many women had been sent into space during NASA's shuttle program, no woman of color had been aboard any of the missions until Dr. Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to do ...

[Ramon and the rest of the crew of the Space Shuttle Colombia were killed in an accident on re-entry in 2003]. “So it meant a lot for us to close that loop. “At the time we reached out to Ilan’s wife ...

Your tickets include a complimentary souvenir, snacks, and beverage. The LC-39 Observation Gallery is not available for SpaceX manned launches. Your third option is right at the Visitor Complex on the ...