Cape Canaveral

Dr. William F. House, a dentist-turned-ear specialist who 50 years ago defied the medical establishment and many advocates for the hearing impaired to champion an implantable device, now widely accepted, that made everyday sounds audible to the profoundly...

After a year with no marquee performance team, the freshly renamed Cocoa Beach Air and Space Show has landed the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds for 2013. The show slated for Oct. 19-20 will feature the precision demonstration team on both Saturday and...

An experimental robotic space plane developed for the Air Force is slated to launch Tuesday from Cape Canaveral, fueling an ongoing mystery about its hush-hush payload and overall mission. Air Force officials offered few details about the mission....

A pair of NASA orbiters has given scientists their highest-fidelity look at the moon, a leap that could help explain the evolution of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth. Scientists announced the first results Wednesday from the $496-...

WATERTON CANYON, Colo. — The concrete-floored room looks, at first glance, like little more than a garage. There is a red tool chest, its drawers labeled: "Hacksaws." "Allen wrenches." There are stepladders and vise grips. There is also, at one...

Geno Thorpe, the Penn State basketball commit who transferred to West Oaks Academy in July, has gone back home to Pennsylvania without ever playing a game for the Flame. Thorpe, who averaged 21.5 points as a junior at Pittsburgh Shaler, was in the process...

Melbourne-based Craig Technologies and NASA have reached agreement on a deal that will allow the company to take possession of 1,600 pieces of machine shop and lab equipment used in the shuttle program and intends to use it to service private companies'...

More than 450 guests at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida welcomed the arrival of the agency's first space-bound Orion spacecraft Monday, marking a major milestone in the construction of the vehicle that will carry astronauts farther into space...

Final preparations are under way in Florida for NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavor to leave the East Coast on Monday and begin its voyage to its permanent home in Los Angeles....

One leg of the space shuttle Endeavour's final journey has been delayed because of bad weather, but the craft will still arrive in Los Angeles on schedule Thursday, NASA announced Sunday....

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This post has been corrected. See the note below. Years ago, Karrie Hinkle of Costa Mesa said, her parents watched Endeavour’s fiery trajectory from a Cape Canaveral launch pad not once, but twice. A snail’s-pace crawl through the streets of.....