with lasting consequences into the era of commercial spaceflight as more and more people fly into orbit. Space Shuttle missions fulfilled various tasks in the vehicle's early years, such as ...

Reaching Earth’s orbit is a complex, high-stakes engineering challenge, and the Space Shuttle was one of the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to do it. This video explores the nine-minute ...

A secretive Space Force ship has returned to earth after spending 434 days in orbit conducting mysterious ... It resembles the famous NASA space shuttle in that it is solar-powered, though it ...

Managing cryogenic fuels for the space sector remains a complex challenge, with boil-off – the natural evaporation of gas as ...

Astronauts Steven Smith and John Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide-angle photograph from December 1999, taken ...

This is the spaceplane’s seventh time in orbit, and the Space Force has big ... Spaceplanes Are the Cutting-Edge Evolution of the Space Shuttle Dream For its seventh mission, the spaceplane ...

The space shuttle flight program came to a close on ... vehicle that could “shuttle repeatedly from Earth to orbit and back." From the initial flight of the “world’s first reusable ...

Maintaining the fuel at temperatures below –183°C is key: even small heat leaks in space can cause gases to boil off.

Even though the public often called them astronauts, payload specialists were not selected through NASA's formal astronaut ...

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