You can now own a $1 gold coin celebrating one of America’s most revolutionary achievements: the NASA Space Shuttle program.

The Space Shuttle was one of the most complex and ambitious spacecraft ever designed, pioneering reusable spaceflight and ...

Nearly a decade before the first Space Shuttle took flight, aerospace giant Rockwell—with influence from NASA’s legendary engineering titan Maxime Faget—sketched out stunning design studies ...

The other is a NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter, which is much more bulbous and has proportionally smaller engines. The jet is labeled: "This is the design that an airplane needs to reach a top speed of ...

A NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter re-enters the Earth's atmosphere at about 75 miles above sea level and speeds close to 17,500 mph. When slowing down to its landing speed of about 215 mph, the ...

DOWNEY, Calif. (CNS) -- It never went into space, but a full-size original space shuttle design prototype built in 1972 as part of Rockwell International's ultimately successful bid to build NASA ...

A common saying often attributed to Oscar Wilde is that "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness," and the latest example of that comes from the space race.

DOWNEY — It never went into space, but a full-size original space shuttle design prototype built in 1972 as part of Rockwell International’s ultimately successful bid to build NASA’s ...