All 135 Space Shuttle Launches happened from Florida. There are two launch pads - 39a and 39b. First the space shuttle is taken to the Orbital Processing Facility (OPF) where maintenance takes place.

The Vehicle Assembly Building has been used since the 1960s to build the rockets before they lift off from the launch pad. It has been primarily used by 3 rockets: the Saturn V, the Space Shuttle, and ...

and veteran of two NASA Space Shuttle missions, told Reuters. It turns out timber is incredibly resilient, able to withstand the extreme temperature fluctuations in space, which can range from ...

For adults, how about the incredible (and huge) Artemis Space Launch System ... epic set let you recreate your very own scale model of the Space Shuttle Discovery, it also comes with a Hubble ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is nearing its 35th anniversary and skywatchers can celebrate the mighty telescope with a ...

Famously, NASA heavily modified two Boeing 747 Jumbo jets to carry its Space Shuttles (they are called the Space Shuttle ...

So SpaceX has achieved a flight rate about 30 times higher than the shuttle at one-hundredth the cost. Space enthusiast Ryan Caton also crunched the numbers on the number of SpaceX launches this ...