While NASA celebrated the launch of its first Space Shuttle in 1981, the Soviet Union was racing to build its own orbital spacecraft using publicly available American technical data and Cold War ...

Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has been opened to the public for tours. The first space shuttle mission, STS-1, launched on April 12, 1981, from Kennedy Space Center, with ...

There is a long process to getting the Space Shuttle ready to launch! If it lands Vandenburg Air Force Base in California ...