When it comes to missed opportunities in spaceflight, few projects sting as much as the Lockheed Star Clipper and its ev ...

Much of the later technical art was based ... Ever seen a space shuttle with jet engines? No? NASA The jet engines actually stuck around on the shuttle concept for some time until they were ...

(CNN) — Upon its inception, NASA’s space shuttle ... that would plunge back home from space and parachute to an ocean landing. The space shuttle concept was a remarkable pivot: Reusable ...

the SpaceX Falcon 9 is a reusable rocket that can launch a payload to space, and then land itself, all to be used again—a ...

The last American space plane to complete a mission in orbit touched down at the Kennedy Space Center on July 21, 2011. When the Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis came to a wheel stop at the end of ...