The mint set noon EDT on Thursday (May 15) as its T-0 for the launch of Florida's dollar celebrating the retired spacecraft.

Explore the remarkable story of Buran, the Soviet Union’s secret space shuttle that stunned the world with its fully ...

As new rockets and space companies arrive on the scene, this workhorse of a rocket, the Falcon 9, remains the most common ...

While the boosters included parachutes allowing ... 28th in the American Innovation series. Credit: US Mint NASA relied on the Space Shuttle to transport astronauts on missions from April 1981 ...

The United States Mint is ready to launch the next $1 coin in its American Innovation series, honoring ... boosters within facilities located on Florida's space coast. "The space shuttle ...

Designed to ferry and deploy the Space Shuttle from 40,000 feet, it also doubled as a flying cargo hauler for rockets, boosters ... a prototype could be built. NASA chose the 747 instead, and ...

Since Apollo, NASA’s human space programs have ... The agency added a fifth segment to the shuttle’s solid rocket boosters, stretched its external fuel tank height to 212 ft.

Besides its flights to the International Space Station and Starship program, SpaceX is deeply embedded in the Department of ...

Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and ...

NASA used Shuttle Carrier Aircraft mainly to transport space shuttles ... This massive set includes the Artemis Space Launch System and a multistage rocket with two solid-fuel boosters, an Orion ...

This flip worked flawlessly, and Booster then restarted the 10 inner ring of Raptors, having all 13 engines running for the ...