This mission – which was never carried out – would influence the design of the Space Shuttle orbiter more than any other mission. During this 90-minute mission, the Earth would rotate under ...

Luckily, Hubble is the only telescope designed to be serviced in space ... the orbiter broke apart during reentry. Investigators determined that a piece of foam insulation had struck the shuttle ...

When people think of a space shuttle they think of the American version – the space shuttle, or orbiter ... the Buran was designed to incorporate two Saturn AL-31 jet engines situated on ...

It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, exploding in mere minutes.

A nearly 50-year-old mockup that was part of the space ... shuttle development project is being reassembled for display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. Two huge cranes lifted the "Pathfinder ...