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.

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

bringing deep space flight into the present. The two boosters will be taller than The Statue of Liberty and will weigh over 1.6 million pounds each. NASA plans to launch humans near the moon in ...

With the notable exception of the now retired Space Shuttle orbiters ... SpaceX has been landing and refurbishing their Falcon 9 boosters, with the end goal of operating their rockets more ...

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 ...

The Nixon administration's decision to end the Apollo program and focus on building a reusable Space Shuttle was a political ... the Falcon 9 rocket booster landed on the drone ship positioned ...

The Starlink mission sent up 21 of the internet satellites for SpaceX from Space Launch Complex 40 at 10:35 p.m. The first-stage booster flew for the 22nd time making a recovery landing downrange ...