The American Space Shuttle used three main engines mounted to the orbiter itself, a large external tank, and two solid rocket motors mounted to the side of the external tank. The Soviet shuttle ...

(Photo Caption: The Space Shuttle Main Propulsion Test Article ... SLS merged the MPTA aft fuselage and External Tank elements into an inline rocket stage. The left image shows the orbiter ...

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.

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 ...

While the Space Shuttle, officially known as the Space ... a piece of insulating foam came off of the external tank and struck the wing. The impact was observed by Ground Control, but as there ...

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.

Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months, have ...