This mission – which was never carried out – would influence the design of the Space Shuttle orbiter more than any other mission. During this 90-minute mission, the Earth would rotate under ...

When people think of a space shuttle they think of the American version – the space shuttle, or orbiter ... the Buran was designed to incorporate two Saturn AL-31 jet engines situated on ...

President Ronald Reagan immediately appointed a commission to investigate and report on the circumstances that led up to the ...

The temperature was predicted to be a record low for a Space Shuttle launch ... would have been affected in those temperatures. The orbiter and the launch tower were draped in icicles.

A nearly 50-year-old mockup that was part of the space ... shuttle development project is being reassembled for display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. Two huge cranes lifted the "Pathfinder ...

I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Approximately a minute, half after ...

Ekaterinburg’s aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle ... of the various design and engineering ...