SEE ALSO: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Video: The Final Flight According to a report by Matt Novak at Gizmodo, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) -- the secretive intelligence organization ...

April 23, 1990 On April 23, 1990, NASA made history with the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-31. The launch marked a pivotal moment in space ...

Hubble launched on April 24, 1990, stowed inside the cargo bay of space shuttle Discovery. STS-31 was Discovery's 10th launch, and it was the 35th space shuttle mission overall. One day after ...

Stodieck handed the test tubes off to a NASA crew, then watched as his work lifted away from a launchpad aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. “I never get tired of launches,” said Stodieck, who served ...

They will replace three astronauts currently on the Chinese space station. Like those before them, they will stay there for roughly six months. The three will launch for space Thursday evening in ...

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the uncrewed Cargo Dragon spacecraft lifted off Monday at 4:15 a.m. EDT (0815 GMT) from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

At 4:15 a.m. EDT, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft took off while aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The craft, known as Commercial ...

Though rockets here launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center near Merritt Island, Florida, or Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, people from Jacksonville and the surrounding Duval County area can ...

The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lits off on Jan. 16, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.