NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

The shuttle main engines were designed in the 1970s, ahead of the first shuttle launch in 1981. In the 1990s and 2000s, NASA built a new series of upgraded engines with higher thrust and improved ...

NASA's iconic Space Shuttle program has been filled with scientific triumphs ... 36 years later Glenn joined the crew of STS-95 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. He was 77 years old at the time, ...

In 1976, NASA was drawing up plans to develop a series of large space stations that would sit in high Earth orbit. Stations would run on solar power and would have been much larger than the Skylab ...

Back on April 12, 1981, the space shuttle roared to life for the first time. Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying two astronauts – a moonwalker, John Young, and a rookie, Bob ...

NASA's Super Guppy aircraft landed Tuesday at Ellington Field in Houston with a piece of NASA history that will soon get a new life. The plane's massive nose swung open to reveal a space shuttle ...