A team of scientists from the US has analyzed the Space Shuttle’s design process ...

The United States once poured money and political capital into a spaceplane concept that promised to take off from a runway, ...

Once that Starship is captured and SpaceX engineers examine it, Space Center Houston would seem to be the perfect place to ...

A new front has opened in the battle over space shuttle Discovery, and the fight has made its way to the Justice Department. The two Texas Senators trying to mandate the relocation of Discovery from ...

Almost four months after the American space agency NASA installed the first newly built RS-25 Space Shuttle engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, hardware ...

May 3, 12:00 am—When NASA requested designs for a Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), two major teams—one headed by Lockheed Martin and one by Northrop Grumman and Boeing—took on the challenge. The ...

Jared Isaacman, President Trump's pick to lead NASA, is on board with moving the space shuttle Discovery to Houston, ...

It's been 14 years since the Space Shuttle Endeavour flew its final mission. With construction of the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center nearing completion, the shuttle now has a permanent home in Los ...

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Space shuttle Enterprise, NASA's retired prototype orbiter, will reopen on public display July 10, just shy of one year since its exhibit in New York first opened. Enterprise's new "Space Shuttle ...

Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASAs Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space ...