April 12 - 14, 1981 The inaugural launch of the space shuttle Columbia, piloted by Apollo veteran John Young and astronaut Robert Crippen. By happenstance, it was also the 20th anniversary of the ...

This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring stories about people, communities and events and how weather impacted them. Aboard the flight was the ...

Legendary astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, has died, NASA said Saturday. Young was 87. The space agency said Young died Friday night at ...

On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. The space shuttle Columbia safely touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

Seen in this historic photo from the U.S. space agency, the first Space Shuttle External Tank, or the Main Propulsion Test Article, entered NASA history on September 9th, 1977, when it rolled off of ...

For three decades, NASA's space shuttle captured the world's imagination, symbolizing a new era of regular access to orbit. Officially known as the Space Transport System (STS), it was the fourth ...

The first Space Shuttle was originally going to be named Constitution. US President Gerald Ford agreed to rename it Enterprise – here's how Star Trek fans persuaded him. It's 17 September 1976. The ...

The last time some New Yorkers saw the space shuttle Enterprise, it was zipping around the city, riding piggyback on top of a modified jumbo jet past the Statue of Liberty and other local landmarks.

NEW YORK – The historic Enterprise space shuttle returned to view Wednesday on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on Manhattan’s far west side, protected by a structure designed ...