Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spacecraft has taken a significant step toward operational missions. The uncrewed spaceplane ...

Pontiac-based program relied on big cubic inches to help usher America’s nascent shuttle design into the later space age.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory described the complicated maneuver that will get the Trailblazer in a position to reach ...

When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...

Spaceplanes are making a comeback! Dream Chaser is a modern take on the legendary Space Shuttle, built for safer, reusable, and cost-effective space travel. In this video, we explore how it works, why ...

NASA created the program to procure a Space Shuttle to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station. In 2014, the agency awarded contracts to both Boeing and SpaceX. Boeing received $4.2 ...

Billionaire Elon Musk vowed Tuesday to bring home the two astronauts who have been stuck in space for about eight months “as soon as possible” – and blasted the Biden White House for not ...

The founder of SpaceX said President Trump had asked his company to return two astronauts aboard the space station to Earth “as soon as possible.” NASA said it would do that “as soon as ...

Students gathered around model space shuttles ... USA TODAY's page one with the Challenger space shuttle explosion on Jan. 29, 1986. Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another shuttle ...

In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, President Trump reiterated the remark, saying “the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden Administration.” ...