Essentially, the program was established to continue jobs that were attached to the Space Shuttle program after that vehicle ended its tenure in 2011. Pace's comments may land with a thud on the ...

You’d think space ... Shuttle-worthy, a 600-baud frequency-shift keying (FSK) interface was added, which patched into the spaceplane’s comms system. [Ken] does his usual meticulous analysis ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are set to arrive home on SpaceX after spending 9 months on the ISS after ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...

Former Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale has posted a ... The crew was instructed to review the procedures but not do anything yet. The question was a simple one – had it failed or ...

Since NASA ended its space-shuttle program in 2011, the agency has relied exclusively on Russia to ferry its astronauts to and from orbit in Soyuz spacecraft. But those seats have gotten ...

US Military's Mini Space Shuttle Returns to Earth After Orbiting ... It's "an exciting new chapter in the X-37B program," program director Lt. Col. Blaine Stewart said in a statement.

(AP) — The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday ... It’s “an exciting new chapter in the X-37B program,” program director Lt. Col.