Here's the semi-forgotten story of how, in 1986, NASA picked an Appleton high school student's experiment to fly on the space ...

Following a launch scrub a week earlier, space shuttle Columbia took to the skies on Nov. 12, 1981, for its second trip into space. Astronauts Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly rode the reusable, ...

The Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey held a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for a roughly 40,000-square-foot expansion ...

Missed the first two installments of Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight when it premiered last Sunday on CNN? You can catch up on those hourlong episodes tonight, April 13 beginning at 9pm ...

Downey hopes to finish Space Center expansion before Olympics, the atmospheric river storm hitting California and more big ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - On a sleepy winter Saturday morning in 2003, most Americans had no idea that seven astronauts were gliding back to Earth after more than two weeks in space. But the whole nation ...

The Columbia Memorial Space Center and the city of Downey celebrated the groundbreaking of its expansion project on Monday, ...

On November 19, 1997, Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-American astronaut, made history as the first woman of Indian origin to ...

Twenty years ago on Jan. 16, Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center for the last time.It was on its return to Earth, after 16 days in space, that the shuttle broke apart, ...

It's the second in Retro 51's Space Shuttle Series. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Twenty years after it was tragically lost as ...

Editor’s Note: Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. He is the author of “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great ...