What happens when an aircraft is built to carry the future of Soviet space missions? The Antonov An-225, the world’s largest ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy ...

The milestones, heartbreaks, and discoveries that shaped NASA's 30-year shuttle program. NASA's storied space shuttle program experienced extraordinary triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies during ...

That doesn’t mean, however, that interplanetary tech hasn’t found its way into your ride’s design. Even the humblest of daily ...

Practically prehistoric compared to modern aircraft ... by the more advanced F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II. 7. Space Shuttle: the first reusable spaceplane It developed around the same ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space shuttle program's greatest tragedy. Congress authorized NASA to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was lost ...

R: The Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise inside of Marshall Space Flight Center's Dynamic Test Stand for Mated Vertical Ground Vibration tests (MVGVT). Images: NASA These are the voyages of the space ...

Sierra Space officials announced the autonomous spacecraft successfully completed and passed testing milestones in ...

The Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum ‘Remembering Columbia’ Museum in Hemphill works to preserve the legacy of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its STS-107 crew. As part of the 20th annual ...

STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the story behind them is fascinating. The push for printers in space came from the combined forces of NASA’s love for checklists and the need ...