Space Shuttle Enterprise sets off to New York today, where it will join the collection at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. more ›

Space Shuttle Enterprise isn't go anywhere just yet—today's foul weather has delayed a scheduled flight up to its new home in New York. more ›

After Tuesday's spectacular Space Shuttle Discovery flight over the region, thousands traveled to the Udvar-Hazy Center yesterday to welcome the shuttle and say goodbye to the Enterprise. more ›

With space shuttle Discovery settling into its new digs at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center, for the the current occupant of the hangar-turned-museum at Dulles International Airport, it's time to go. Boldly. more ›

After yesterday's Space Shuttle Discovery fly-over of D.C., plenty of people wondered how exactly a 747 could fly with a shuttle strapped to its back. Well, consider this—the people that would usually ride in a 747 are heavier than the shuttle was. more ›

Thousands of residents and visitors in D.C. streamed onto the National Mall, Hains Point, the Georgetown waterfront and just about any place with an open view of the sky this morning to see Space Shuttle Discovery make one last trip before it reaches its final resting place at the Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum in Dulles. more ›

We've already got a ton of great pictures of today's Space Shuttle Discovery fly-over, but now the Smithsonian sends along a video of the day's events. more ›

Some people watching today's flyover by the Space Shuttle Discovery mixed the ship up with the Challenger, which was destroyed during takeoff in January 1986. more ›

It's 9:30 a.m. Do you know what you might be missing outside? A space shuttle fly-over, to be exact, so look towards the Potomac River during the next 15 minutes and see if you spot it. more ›

Don't forget to look out towards the Potomac River tomorrow morning between 10 and 11 a.m.—you may just catch a glimpse of Space Shuttle Discovery as it is flown over Washington on the back of a 747 on its way to the Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum tomorrow. more ›

Big news for all you space nerds: as we noted last year, the space shuttle Discovery will join the Smithsonian's collection in April. But even better, the AP reports today that NASA got the permits to fly a 747 with the shuttle strapped on it over the U.S. Capitol, allowing anyone in the city with a good view of the sky to get quite the view of it. more ›

What better way to get in the mood for a space shuttle launch than to talk to an astronaut about one? DCist sat down with Alvin Drew, a D.C. born and bred astronaut who recently flew aboard the final Discovery mission. more ›

Cheers erupted from the staff at the National Air & Space Museum this afternoon as NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, over a live feed from Kennedy Space Center, officially announced that space shuttle Discovery will find a new home at the Udvar-Hazy Center. more ›

Washington, D.C. native Alvin Drew was the sixth and last astronaut strapped in a few minutes ago aboard the space shuttle Discovery at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is Drew's second shuttle mission, his first since STS-118 in 2007. more ›

A slice of nostalgia for your Sunday afternoon: friend of DCist John Ulaszek sent Look Up this great copy of an old Weekly Reader magazine he dug up a couple weeks ago. The cover features the upcoming launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia on Mission STS-2 -- the second launch in the brand new space shuttle program and also the second launch for Columbia, with a crew of just two. As often happens, the launch was delayed twice and eventually went up on November 12, 1981, where the crew tested new capabilities, including the Remote Manipulator System, or as most of us call it, the CanadArm. Still working out the kinks, STS-2 was cut short when a fuel cell failed, and landed a little over two days after lift-off; this brings to mind the many NASA officials and supporters who've been saying over the past year that we're cutting the shuttle program right when we started getting really good at it. more ›

It's a regular week of summer nights coming up. No meteor showers or amazing celestial events mark the calendar, but with the waxing Moon and (hopefully) some clear nights, it should be a great time to put on some bug spray and check out the regulars -- start with the Summer Triangle we pointed out last week. more ›