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Buried in the sweeping legislation is an $85 million provision to move NASA's most-flown spacecraft from the national ...
NASA's retired Space Shuttle Discovery could be on the move from Virginia to Texas under a provision in the GOP's so-called ...
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...
American space agency NASA conducted the first full duration hot fire of a brand-new RS-25 rocket engine since the hardware completed certification testing.
The 156-foot-long five-segment solid rocket motor produced upwards of 4 million pounds of thrust during the test.
Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...
A full-size mockup of the space shuttle orbiter that was built as a contractor's showcase model before NASA decided on the spacecraft's final design is heading back on display in Downey, California.
A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with ...
The space plane would take off aided by a rocket powered sled, from a 2-mile special runway, and then land horizontally like a plane. Radian Aerospace Radian plans to flight-test a full-scale ...
If you're remembering back to NASA's legacy Space Shuttle, which launched from 1981 to 2011, that was a smaller rocket. It's dwarfed by these newcomers. According to NASA , it stood at only 184 ...
An early mockup of NASA's winged orbiters, Pathfinder was returned to its position atop a space shuttle propulsion "stack" at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Inside the Vaya Space Headquarters is a large 3D printer which actively uses small plastic pellets − which resemble crafting beads − and a computer model to sculpt the solid rocket fuel.