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What will the orbital spacecraft of tomorrow look like? If Dassault Aviation has its way, it could be similar to its Véhicule ...
While the 747 was a commercial success, it has served important roles in aviation beyond passenger operations. The aircraft ...
On February 7, 1984, 370 kilometres above the earth, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II floated into the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Challenger and prepared to make history. Strapped to his ...
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NASA Veteran John Casani Dies
With Voyager 2 in the background, John Casani holds a small U.S. flag that was sewn into the spacecraft's thermal blankets ...
After boarding the Challenger space shuttle on June 18, 1983, Ride became the first US woman to fly to space. It was two decades after Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made the voyage.
The five space shuttle fleet—Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour — launched satellites, were instrumental in various missions including the Hubble Space Telescope, and played a ...
A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with ...
Yes—and no. Outside Space Center Houston stands Independence, a full-scale shuttle replica mounted atop a real NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. It’s impressive, but it’s not the real thing.
The jet from J1610+1811 clocks in at 92% to 98% light, carrying about half as much energy as all the light emitted by matter spiraling into the black hole — a staggering output equivalent to ...
Already boasting more than 700,000 wishlists, the co-op space shooter has held onto a place as one of the biggest Steam Next Fest demos through the past week, and it's set for launch this year.
Elon Musk said Thursday his aerospace company SpaceX will ground Dragon, the spacecraft NASA uses to service the International Space Station amid his falling out with President Trump. “In lig… ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (TNND) — A small plane carrying six people crashed off the San Diego coast Sunday afternoon, not long after taking off for Phoenix. The twin-engine Cessna 414 crashed around 12 ...