In an effort to be the first to field a fully reusable spaceplane of the same size and scale as the Space Shuttle, Dawn ...

Michael Nelmes steps us through the Soviet space shuttle program.

In the 1980s he spent years working on the Buran programme to create a Russian space shuttle but it was eventually scrapped after making one unmanned flight. In the post-Soviet years, Titov threw ...

Rehoming NASA’s fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets of Los Angeles atop a mechanical transporter for three days and ...

Spacecraft burn tons of fuel and leave behind debris—but a clever technique called aerobraking could fix both problems.

In addition to that medal, NASA also considered Denver for the civilian spot in the crew of astronauts who were set to go on the excursion via the space shuttle Challenger. After passing extensive ...

The RS-25s are refurbished engines left over from the Space Shuttle program. During that era, technicians swapped out main engines several times when the shuttle was on the launch pad. NASA ...

An aerospace engineer explains why NASA, Space Force and other agencies are using or testing aerobraking for more ...

the Hubble Space Telescope was launched on the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 24, 1990. Since it orbits above the Earth, it can capture better cosmic images ...

Fast forwarding to what we call act two, which was the space shuttle and International Space Station era, it’s kind of ’70s and beyond. The goals changed remarkably. Space flight was too ...