WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Nick Lampson introduced a bill to allow NASA to purchase additional Russian Soyuz and Progress vehicles if the President notifies Congress that they are needed to ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Maybe NASA's managers still view the shuttle as the Cadillac of space technology, but they sometimes make it sound as if it were a cranky old Ford with a few too many miles on ...

When Space Shuttle Discovery touched down for the last time at Kennedy Space Center Runway 15 on March 9, 2011, it brought to an end a 27-year career of spaceflight. Discovery flew to space 39 times, ...