This 3D model shows the now-retired space shuttle blasting off in a vast plume of smoke. Which space shuttle? Atlantis was the last space shuttle to see active service before the program was ...

3D Scanning is intense and challenging work ... “Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter to fly in space. From 1984 to 2012, Discovery flew 39 Earth-orbital missions, spent a total of ...

NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to give people a 3D photographic look at the space shuttle Endeavour before its launch this week, in a public-private partnership that could lead to more use of ...

But three exhibits, out of them all, stand above: The SR-71 Blackbird, the Concorde, and the Space Shuttle Discovery. Since my childhood trips to Air and Space, I've loved all three of those planes.

The 3D communities of microorganisms (called biofilms) grown aboard the space shuttle had more live cells, were thicker and had more biomass than the bacterial colonies grown in normal gravity on ...

Users around the world will be able to view it in unprecedented detail, in virtual reality, and even 3D print their own copy. Check out this 360 photo of Space Shuttle Discovery at its permanent ...

"The 3D printer that we're going to fly on space ... astronauts waited for the needed part to be sent up on the next space shuttle flight. Another potential application would involve cubesats ...

[Breaking Taps] has the story of NASA engineers who needed some special cooling chambers in a rocket design for the Space Shuttle. Today you’d 3D print them, but in the 70s, that wasn’t an option.

The Space Shuttle was one of the most complex and ambitious ... s narrow win Researchers uncover Titanic's tragic end using 3D digital scan, simulations 'Major' ancient Egyptian town discovered ...

and space shuttle astronaut Nicole Stott at lunar sunset. (Courtesy of Lonestar) The 3D-printed exterior design of the “Freedom” data center was created by the Bjarke Ingels Group. Duke and ...

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 ...