The Space Shuttle was a groundbreaking achievement in aerospace engineering—combining the power of a rocket with the ...

2025 coins celebrate Florida's and Texas' advancements in space exploration. The space shuttle and International ... commemorates NASA's 30-year space transportation system on its reverse (or ...

Read full article: INTERACTIVE: The NASA astronauts and employees who died in service to U.S. space exploration January 28th is a Day of Remembrance honoring the lives of the crew and teacher ...

The crewed shuttle mission for NASA ended moments after ... set to be one of the first “civilians” in space. A NASA investigation later found that cold weather and faulty O-rings on the ...

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 ... developed to transport orbiters ...

It had been more than 40 years since President Richard Nixon had announced in January 1970 that the nation should build a new type of space transportation vehicle that could “shuttle repeatedly ...

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.

Marshall Space Flight Center also came to control three of the primary elements of the space shuttle: the main engines on the orbiter ... passive thermal control system for the first U.S ...

Tuesday marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy.The shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff on Jan. 28, 1986.New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe was one of the ...