Nick Charles: On April 14th, the Space Shuttle ... afternoon landing time was established, it was none too certain. Weather conditions were not optimal here at Edwards Air Force Base.

Therefore, the loop should be considered failed, and the Space Shuttle should return to Earth. As well as a First Day PLS (Planned Landing) at Edwards Air Force Base, which required everything to ...

Story continues below It was just the third official mission of the decade-old Space Shuttle program ... Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California but several inches of ...

Twenty years to the day since Yuri Gagarin flew in Vostok 1, the world’s first reusable spacecraft – and the most complex spacecraft ever built – was launched into orbit by the US.

Minnesota teen’s space experiment flew aboard Columbia in 1982, revealing how bugs react to weightlessness during shuttle ...

X-47B First Flight The X-47B, an unmanned combat vehicle built as a demonstration aircraft for the U.S. Navy, had its inaugural flight at California's Edwards Air Force Base on February 4, 2011 ...