NASA had never launched a Space Shuttle at such a low temperature ... the inrushing air pulling the fuselage asunder from the inside,” writes Higginbotham. The last communication from the ...

Much of the shuttle’s storied history was written in Houston, home to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. But today, Discovery rests ...

The full-stack launch position of Endeavour is rare; no other space shuttle is displayed in such a way. In fact, for the last 11 years, Endeavour has rested in a horizontal position inside the ...

EXPOSITION PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The retired Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California ... ABC7 got to take a special look inside. "Since the Endeavour has been on display here, we've ...

NASA astronaut Sally Ride became America's first woman in space after she and four colleagues blasted off on the space ...

After the Space Shuttle Columbia accident ... I got access to a few of them to convey their roles to the public. I met Deal inside the Air Force’s Cheyenne Mountain blast-hardened fortress ...

The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983. Hundreds of cars lined the roads inside and outside the base as onlookers, most of them employees of base ...

Safe to say, the European Space Agency's Hermes shuttle is one we don't want to be forgotten. It's hard to fathom the ESA venturing on their own to build a human-crewed, re-useable space vehicle ...

You’d think space would be the one place where computer users would be spared the travails of printing, but as [Ken Shirriff] outlines, there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the ...

R: The Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise inside of Marshall Space Flight Center's Dynamic Test Stand for Mated Vertical Ground Vibration tests (MVGVT). Images: NASA Get the Popular Science daily ...

Students gathered around model space shuttles ... that morning that Thompson said she stayed inside, watching it all on television. As soon as the shuttle’s vapor trails split in several ...