There is a long process to getting the Space Shuttle ready to launch! If it lands Vandenburg Air Force Base in California ...

NASA today announced the selection of N. Wayne Hale Jr. as manager of the Space Shuttle Program. He has been deputy manager since July 2003 and succeeds Bill Parsons, who returned to NASA’s Stennis ...

Many forget that airports are not always designed with airliners in mind: some are actually designed with craft that fly much ...

Explore the Space Shuttle Program through the eyes of some of the exceptional men and women who worked behind-the-scenes to make it fly. When We Were Shuttle tells the story of the Space Shuttle ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

From Mercury & Apollo Missions to the Space Shuttle Program, Mars Rover Landings, and Artemis II. The astronauts of the Artemis II mission spoke to reporters at their first news conference since ...

(Reuters) - U.S. space agency NASA is ending its shuttle program this summer after two more missions. Shuttle Endeavour is due to launch on Friday on a mission to deliver a high-profile physics ...

For millions of Americans, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11. On that chilly January day in 1986, ...

The space shuttle system has been modified many times since the first launch of space shuttle Columbia in 1981. During the 1980s, major upgrade programs were established to respond to problems and ...