The Space Shuttle was one of the most complex and ambitious spacecraft ever designed, pioneering reusable spaceflight and ...

Reaching Earth’s orbit is a complex, high-stakes engineering challenge, and the Space Shuttle was one of the most advanced ...

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.

NASA's newest space shuttle, Atlantis, made its public debut during a rollout ceremony at the Rockwell International ...

NASA Crew-9 astronauts Sunita Williams, Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov breathed earthly ...

The Nixon administration's decision to end the Apollo program and focus on building a reusable Space Shuttle was a political ... Space Launch System's twin Solid Rocket Boosters inside the Vehicle ...

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

AI gives a thumbs up to Brett Bellmore innovative modifications to Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR).

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds ... The disaster was caused by a faulty O-ring in the right solid rocket booster, which failed due to cold temperatures.

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore are set to be back on Earth after their prolonged stay in the International Space Station (ISS) for almost 9 months. The capsule carrying both ...

Long before the first rays of sunlight brushed the California horizon, an extraordinary homecoming took place. The U.S. military’s experimental space plane, the X-37B, touched down in secrecy, its ...