This is not a napkin drawing," he said. The debate reflects disagreement over the direction of U.S. spaceflight as NASA prepares to retire the shuttle in 2010. By 2015, NASA plans to begin orbital ...

[Photos: NASA's Prepares for Final Shuttle Flight] Here's a closer look ... she worked for McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company as a stealth engineer. In October 2002, Magnus completed her first ...

Sleek, advanced, and packed with practical innovations, this shuttle concept could have revolutionized reusable space travel.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If you want to see a retired NASA space shuttle, you have a few ...

Upon its inception, NASA’s space shuttle program promised to usher in a new era of exploration, keeping astronauts space-bound with a reusable and relatively cheap ride into orbit. It was a ...

As the space shuttle often was delayed due to technical problems, it therefore comes as scant surprise that the debut launch of NASA's Space Launch System rocket was scrubbed a few hours before ...

The year was 1977 and then-President Jimmy Carter had a problem with NASA. In a diary entry from that June, Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, made clear his displeasure with the agency, which ...

NASA's mission management team was criticized for dismissing the foam strike based on what turned out to be a flawed engineering analysis. The shuttle was not equipped with a robot arm ...

The underbelly was coated in thousands of silicon tiles protecting the shuttle from heat as it returned into the Earth’s atmosphere from space. The team turned its findings over to NASA in ...