From stray pens to birds, Mike Leinbach, retired launch director, explains why shuttle launches sometimes got scrubbed.

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Retired NASA launch director Mike Leinbach launched 37 space shuttle missions and more than 240 astronauts to space.

Twenty years ago today, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on STS-115, the first International Space Station assembly mission conducted following the Columbia disaster.

A detailed animated look at the process of getting the Space Shuttle into Earth orbit, with most operations shown at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Assets and models used (purchased and modified): ...

It launches like a rocket and returns to the runway like an airplane. The Space Shuttle looked different from conventional ...

Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser, the spacecraft that looks like a miniature space shuttle, doesn’t have a target launch date yet but it does have “undisclosed national security and commercial customers,” ...

Orlando Sentinel photographer Joe Burbank caught an amazing photo of the final flight over the Magic Kingdom’s Space Mountain as the sun was rising, while then staff photographer Red Huberr, now ...

China's new Haolong space cargo shuttle. See it launch in this animation. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

On September 17, 1976, NASA revealed the Enterprise—its first space shuttle, named after Star Trek's starship. Discover how this pioneering craft shaped American spaceflight history.