The Space Shuttle was a groundbreaking achievement in aerospace engineering—combining the power of a rocket with the ...

The Russians have been just as imaginative as their American counterparts in designing spacecraft, yet less determined in realizing them.

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia ... “Every time the shuttle launched, there was this huge influx of people coming ...

The SpainSat NG-1 satellite launched right on time at 8:34 ... Sierra Space Dream Chaser 'mini shuttle' space plane tests continue toward May maiden flight Sierra Space's "mini shuttle" Dream ...

when NASA flew an average of six space shuttle missions a year, each usually carrying five to seven astronauts. The first shuttle launched in 1981, but the program took a nearly three-year hiatus ...

Lofted in December of 2023, the military spaceplane was placed in an orbit higher than any of the earlier space plane missions ... at the Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility Runway.

I have been a space enthusiast since early childhood. Dad was an aerospace engineer, and I have it on good authority that there was a model of a Saturn V rocket in my nursery. In the 1970s, it was ...

In addition to the 1968 launch of Apollo 5, the first Canadian woman launched into space onboard shuttle Discovery in 1992.

Instead of parachute reentry systems, Dream Chaser is much more like a NASA space shuttle, and returns to Earth through a runway landing. The aesthetic callbacks aren’t an accident, either.

For millions, 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, students and teachers across the nation waited in awe and wonder, primed to watch and learn from the first teacher in space as she soared to new heights from a ...