China has unveiled the design of a new reusable shuttle to take cargo to and from the country's space station. The Haolong space shuttle is being developed by the Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research ...
An insulation design change that will further enhance the safety of the Space Shuttle’s Solid Rocket Motor nozzle is set for its final certification test on a static firing of a full-scale flight ...
The Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey held a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for a roughly 40,000-square-foot expansion ...
In the 1970s, the USA was planning vast network of solar power stations, or SPS, to wean the country off oil and avoid using ...
When space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Feb. 7, it will mark the first flight of an external tank manufactured using longitudinal friction stir ...
From 1981 to 2011, the space shuttle flew 135 missions and carried 355 people into space. It launched satellites. It deployed (then later fixed) the Hubble Telescope. It was instrumental in building ...
Discovery's days of spaceflight may long be over, but the historic NASA space shuttle may soon be on the move again – just not in orbit. As part of Republicans' massive tax and spending legislation ...