The Phantom Express program sought to build a reusable spacecraft that could be used to launch satellites into orbit every 24 hours during 10 days with minimal maintenance. The implications would give ...

NASA's space shuttle was a large, heavy vehicle, and needed an even larger, heavier low-wing aircraft to transport it across ...

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos celebrated the New Glenn landing on X, posting several videos of the 188-foot-tall (57 meters) ...

Big Bird barely made it out of the 1980s in one piece. Not only was Sesame Street' s biggest star in talks to ride aboard the ...

"The first 20 women or so ... couldn't even imagine the reality or the possibility of becoming an astronaut except as they ...

Another parking option is the 2,800-space surface lot next to the terminal called the Terminal Lot. There is no wayfinding ...

Following a launch scrub a week earlier, space shuttle Columbia took to the skies on Nov. 12, 1981, for its second trip into space. Astronauts Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly rode the reusable, ...

When I was an aerospace engineer working on the NASA Space Shuttle Program, trust was mission-critical. Every bolt, every line of code, every system had to be validated and tested carefully, or the ...

A new front has opened in the battle over space shuttle Discovery, and the fight has made its way to the Justice Department. The two Texas Senators trying to mandate the relocation of Discovery from ...

Texas lawmakers have demanded the Discovery shuttle be moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but daunting technical challenges remain—and Virginia officials have dug in against the move. The ...

Three Texas lawmakers accuse the Smithsonian Institution of "illegal lobbying" to block the relocation of the Space Shuttle Discovery from its Virginia museum to Houston, prompting a request for a ...