NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

The Space Shuttle was an engineering marvel that changed the face of space exploration, and understanding how it launched is ...

The Space Shuttle Orbiter was a revolutionary spacecraft that changed the way we think about space exploration. Designed for ...

Shuttle/Payload Configuration Management Plan for the Payload and General Support Computer (PGSC), JSC 27891, Space Shuttle Vehicle Engineering Office October 1997 ...

A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with ...

In the case of the space shuttle, there was a large external tank in addition to the boosters which held propellant. In the case of the Crew Dragon, it’s attached to a Falcon 9 rocket which is ...

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 ...

The space shuttle program was marked by triumphs and failures, including the 2003 Columbia disaster. The tragedies left a lasting mark on the perception of risks in space.

The Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L mission was expected to deploy a communications satellite and study Halley’s Comet. McAuliffe was part of the Teacher in Space Project, which was meant to ...

Barring weather delays, the space shuttle Endeavour will undergo its final, historic lift starting Monday night, a maneuver no other retired orbiter has undergone. Plans for the coming move ...

The space shuttle program was marked by triumphs and failures, including the 2003 Columbia disaster. The tragedies left a lasting mark on the perception of risks in space.