When Space Shuttle Columbia launched in January 2003, a piece of foam the size of a briefcase broke off from the shuttle's external fuel tank and hit the left wing. Some shuttle engineers worried ...

One of the main elements of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS ... but those don’t make a rocket stage any more than the Shuttle External Tank did by itself. (Photo Caption: Major join 2 of ...

After decades of planning and the help of one San Diego company, the Space Shuttle Endeavour ... the boosters would be attached to the external tank to help the shuttle's main engines lift ...

As the world welcomed Sunita Williams back, many remembered another Indian-origin astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who left an ...