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Our multi award-winning podcast returns on 14 July 2025 with: 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle. Presented by space ...
BBC World Service and BBC Sounds have announced their multi-award winning podcast 13 Minutes To The Moon is to return with a ...
What will the orbital spacecraft of tomorrow look like? If Dassault Aviation has its way, it could be similar to its Véhicule ...
The Space Shuttle was operated by NASA for 30 years, with its last flight occurring in 2011. #Space #NASA #SpaceShuttle ...
Then there's, of course, the aforementioned NASA Space Shuttle, which was in service from 1981 up to 2011. The Shuttle was ...
Whereas the single Space Shuttle launch was a $1.6 billion investment, a smaller space plane roughly a quarter the Shuttle's size is thought to cost at least a quarter what a larger spaceplane would.
Reporters and photographers line up to watch and photograph the space shuttle and 747. The plane and cargo circled over Santa Maria and Lompoc before landing on time at the base.
The space plane would take off aided by a rocket powered sled, from a 2-mile special runway, and then land horizontally like a plane. Radian Aerospace Radian plans to flight-test a full-scale ...
Sierra Space's "mini shuttle" Dream Chaser space plane may make its maiden flight in May after launching atop a rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Pre-flight testing continues at NASA ...
Taylor Jenkins Reid's "Atmosphere" tells the story of Joan, an astronomer who becomes an astronaut, and Vanessa, an ...
It's unclear by how much, but for some idea, NASA hoped that its X-33 space plane would reduce the cost of sending a pound of payload into orbit from $10,000 to $1,000. Radian One wouldn't be a ...
A new series of the 13 Minutes podcast will look at the Space Shuttle program, from its clandestine beginnings to after ...