This Day in History: Nixon authorizes $5.5 million to launch space shuttle program

Exactly 54 years ago today on Jan. 4, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a bill authorizing $5.5 million to develop a ...
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Why NASA walked away from a shuttle that could have saved billions

The United States once poured money and political capital into a spaceplane concept that promised to take off from a runway, reach orbit in a single leap, and slash the cost of spaceflight. Instead of ...
Space.com

NASA chief Jared Isaacman says Texas may get a moonship, not space shuttle Discovery

NASA's new chief Jared Isaacman said a controversial proposal to move the space shuttle Discovery to Texas from its current ...
Space Coast Daily

Brevard Commissioners Approve Space Coast Day to Honor Region’s Aerospace Legacy

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA — Brevard County’s identity as the heart of America’s space program was formally recognized Tuesday evening as county commissioners unanimously declared March 21 to be Space ...

SpaceX’s market share in the commercial space launch industry: What investors need to know

The increasing number of commercial space launches and the upward trend in upmass serve as unmistakable signs of space ...
USA Today

Hidden at Fort Knox for years, 'space-flown' Sacagawea gold coins sell for millions

Most rare coins experts expect these to become the most valuable modern coins ever sold, Stack's Bowers Galleries claimed. The mission, STS-93, most prominently helped deploy the Chandra X-Ray ...