Take a rare glimpse inside the space shuttle Atlantis just before NASA powered it down forever in 2011. SPACE.com partner Robert Pearlman, editor of collectSPACE, snapped the photos.

Got a Space Nerd in your car, then you have to visit a NASA site. NASA Visitor Centers are scattered across the U.S. and are based at Space Centers and research facilities. There, visitors will get a ...

On July 8, 2011, the space shuttle Atlantis launched on its final mission. Atlantis was the last of NASA's space shuttles to fly into space. It went on 33 missions since 1985, ferrying astronauts to ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz got language into President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" that creates a path for ...

Building Endeavour: (Clockwise from top left) This photo sequence illustrates the how the Orange County Space Society pieced together the shuttle mock-up at the Discovery Science Center.

Space shuttle Atlantis has landed back on Earth, bringing to a close America's 30-year orbiter programme.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's last space shuttle countdown is under way, but lousy weather may delay Friday's launch attempt. There's a 60 percent chance that rain or thunderstorms will postpone ...

The same year that The Verge came into being, another decades-long program was coming to an end. In July 2011, NASA’s Space Shuttle Atlantis, with a crew of four on board, blasted off from ...

Jean Wright's work as a seamstress for NASA was far from ordinary - she was one of the "sisters" who sewed the blankets on the space shuttle.

And despite largely staying on NASA property, transporting space shuttle Atlantis required taking down 23 traffic signals, 56 signs and 120 light poles to fit its wide body through the streets.

Released months after the space shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, SpaceCamp disappeared from pop culture despite a standout cast and legendary composer.

Former astronaut Tom Jones talks about his book, "Space Shuttle Stories," which chronicles all 135 shuttle missions with oral histories from the crews who flew them.