Flying either the rocket-powered X-15 or Space Shuttle would already be pretty impressive, but one man actually flew both.

This story was updated at 12:20 p.m. EDT. NEW YORK — For the second time in as many weeks, a NASA space shuttle is set to take flight on top of a jumbo jet, offering an overhead spectacle as it flies ...

Growing up in the USA in the 1960s I was captivated by the space programme as we raced the Soviet Union to the Moon. Most of my generation can tell you where they were when Neil Armstrong and Buzz ...

If it were up to the crew of STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program, they would have kept flying. Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A on ...