Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot.

NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a scathing report on the space agency’s second mobile launcher (ML-2) for its Moon rocket, which could cost $2.2 billion more than originally ...

ESA has chosen five rocket firms to compete for €169mn contracts, aiming to restore Europe’s independent access to space.

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

Space Shuttle Endeavour will be hoisted into the air and delicately placed into upright launch-ready position at the California Science Center’s new 200,000-square-foot Samuel Oschin Air and ...

The space shuttle Endeavour will be displayed as if in launch configuration, with boosters and a tank, at the California Science Center.

There is a long process to getting the Space Shuttle ready to launch! If it lands Vandenburg Air Force Base in California then it will need to be flown across the United States to Kennedy Space ...

The last big transport of shuttle equipment to the California Science Center will traverse seven freeways to be installed at a 20-story museum exhibit.

The Alexeyev/Sukhoi Albatros launch system, proposed in 1974, would have launched a Soviet space shuttle on the back of a carrier spaceplane, launched off the back of a hydrofoiling barge. It ...

The last big transport of shuttle equipment to the California Science Center will traverse seven freeways to be installed at a 20-story museum exhibit.

After the company's most recent Falcon 9 launch, it has broken the Space Shuttle's 39A launch record. Aside from this numerical milestone, this week's Falcon 9 launch was typical for the company.

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot.