Dr. Bernard Harris Jr., a decorated astronaut who became the first Black person to perform a spacewalk in 1995, is being ...

Astronauts Steven Smith and John Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide-angle photograph from December 1999, taken ...

Dr. Harris stepped out of the space shuttle Discovery in orbit on February 9, 1995, shattering expectations for the brothers ...

Lego's version of NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery is one of the most detailed I've ever seen. So much so, that when Lego first released the set in 2021, I bought it immediately, and I've never ...

NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery may be removed from the Smithsonian and put on display in Houston, if two lawmakers from Texas get their way. U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz ...

Both Texas lawmakers introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate that would move Discovery from Virginia to the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Cornyn and Cruz filed the bill the bring the shuttle home ...

Space Shuttle Discovery crew members, Dale Gardner, center behind flag, holding his son, Tod Allen and Anna Fisher, holding ...

The Space Shuttle Discovery is the back drop as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence chairs the 6th meeting of the National Space Council on "Leading the Next Frontier" at the National Air and Space ...

Now, more than a decade later, the U.S. senators from Texas want to relocate space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum to Houston. It would be a political ...

Texas Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are blaming political favoritism for what they call a decades-old snub—and now they’re pushing to bring the Space Shuttle Discovery back to Houston Both ...