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 ...

Nine months is a long time to be in orbit. But Butch Williams and Suni Wilmore aren't alone in facing extraordinary ...

once NASA entered the era of the reusable space shuttle, he oversaw development of its rockets and its massive fuel tank. In an oral history about his career that Dr. Lucas recorded for NASA in ...

Space exploration has been marked by tragic ... This allowed hot gases to escape, leading to the rupture of the external fuel tank and the shuttle’s destruction. The Rogers Commission ...

So far, the consequences of these failures have not been lethal. But space remains a difficult, hazardous game. Reentering ...

“Astronauts consider themselves ‘stranded’ on Earth, so this is a huge gift,” says Chris Hadfield, a former NASA astronaut, space shuttle pilot ... gas used to push fuel into its thrusters.

A single gram of antimatter annihilating with matter would unleash the same energy as the combustion of 23 Space Shuttle fuel tanks. “This is achieved because the entire reactant masses are ...