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 ...

The final flight of Columbia was a scientific mission, prioritizing experiments conducted aboard the space shuttle in orbit at a time when the primary mission of many space shuttle missions ...

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 ...

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

Unlike NASA's space shuttle, which relied on fuel cells for power in orbit, the X-37B is equipped with an extendable solar array that allows for extremely long flights. The compact orbiters are ...

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

Viewed on a chart, Brevard County's annual aerospace-aviation workforce statistics show "a hockey stick of job growth" climbing upward in recent years.

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 ...

MENOMONIE, Wis. (WEAU) - A prototype called the Space Shuttle Inspiration is making the trip from Kennedy Space Center to St. Cloud Minnesota--with a stop in Menomonie sometime in the next 24 hours.