Boeing is preparing to lay off roughly 200 employees working on the Space Launch System rocket as it braces for the ...

The stage is the ground-started sustainer lifted by two large Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB) for the first two minutes of launch. The Main Propulsion System is designed around the Space Shuttle Main ...

a loading mechanism to extract one shuttle at a time and position it for launch, and two wheels spinning at high speed to launch the shuttle forward. Video after the break. Getting all the details ...

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...