And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...

We always have it on our list to learn more about Orbiter. If you haven’t seen ... you can very accurately model spacecraft like the Space Shuttle and have very realistic controls.

Astronauts successfully installed a new $164 million air lock on the international space station. Sunday's Extravehicular Activity (EVA), or space walk, started an hour late after Mike Gernhardt and ...

This mission – which was never carried out – would influence the design of the Space Shuttle orbiter more than any other mission. During this 90-minute mission, the Earth would rotate under ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

The Space Foundation's 40th Space Symposium got underway with space history lighting up the night sky over Colorado Springs.

They’re mounted on the boosters (three on each), on or in the orbiter (five), and on the tank (one). Space Shuttle Main Engines In 1995, the power head was narrowed from a three-duct injector ...

Pop artist Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King and four other notable women are set to board Blue Origins rocket today. How ...

Before leaving the space shuttle to perform tasks in space ... emergency situation in which the crew must parachute from the orbiter. The suit has inflatable bladders that fill it with oxygen ...

And the craft will fly like a shuttle, reentering the atmosphere with the orbiter's 40-degree nose-high ... that the shuttle never offered. At a 2008 Space Foundation breakfast in Washington ...

One Hit Wonder The Buran did fly in space – just once, in November 1988, not long before the Soviet Union collapsed.Its lone mission was uncrewed. The Buran relied on an automated launch ...