The three parts that made up the space shuttle were the orbiter - the part that resembled an aeroplane, the large orange external tank and the 2 solid rocket boosters.

The Space Shuttle launched to space strapped to a massive external fuel tank and a pair of solid rocket boosters, but it too contributed to the thrust it needed to escape Earth's gravity.

Reaching Earth’s orbit is a complex, high-stakes engineering challenge, and the Space Shuttle was one of the most advanced ...

Port Canaveral, already a busy cruise ship port, is experiencing congestion from space company recovery vessels. The increase in space traffic is due to the rise of reusable rockets, which are brought ...

The Nixon administration's decision to end the Apollo program and focus on building a reusable Space Shuttle was a political ... Launch System's twin Solid Rocket Boosters inside the Vehicle ...

SpaceX is set to send up late Monday its first Falcon 9 from Florida's Space Coast since a fire destroyed a booster after it ...

NASA's newest space shuttle, Atlantis, made its public debut during a rollout ceremony at the Rockwell International ...

Lucas was director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville ... the cause of the explosion pointed to the shuttle's solid-fuel booster rockets as the likely culprit and criticized NASA ...