BBC World Service and BBC Sounds have announced their multi-award winning podcast 13 Minutes To The Moon is to return with a ...

Our multi award-winning podcast returns on 14 July 2025 with: 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle. Presented by space ...

What will the orbital spacecraft of tomorrow look like? If Dassault Aviation has its way, it could be similar to its Véhicule ...

With airplane wings and rocket power, the space shuttle changed how we reached space. Here’s how its three iconic parts worked together.

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.

Then there's, of course, the aforementioned NASA Space Shuttle, which was in service from 1981 up to 2011. The Shuttle was ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Sierra Space Dream Chaser looks like a mini space shuttle, and it’s gearing up for its first trip to space atop United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket in 2024.

When NASA's space shuttle program ended after 30 years in July 2011, so too did a familiar sight often captured on television news clips – the hulking black-and-white orbiters coming in for a ...

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 ...