Facing unprecedented heat during returns through the atmosphere, simplicity was the order of the day for the shuttle, as ...

Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spacecraft has taken a significant step toward operational missions. The uncrewed spaceplane recently completed a docking simulation with the International Space Station ...

For the first time, the US military shared an orbital selfie from its mysterious X-37B space plane, which captured Earth from ...

The US Space Shuttle program is dead and buried. The orbiters can now be found in their permanent homes in the Air and Space Museum, Kennedy Space Center, and the California Science Center.

and delays to the Shuttle program. Under early plans, the third Space Shuttle mission would have been flown by astronauts Jack Lousma and Fred Haise, who would have deployed a module called the ...

The Cupola continues to offer the best views in the universe It has been 15 years since the ultimate selfie booth, the Cupola, was attached to the International Space Station (ISS).… The Cupola, ...

According to Boeing, the X-37B has a body and landing operation similar to the Space Shuttle, however it is smaller, ...

Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke and space shuttle astronaut Nicole Stott will have profiles of their faces land on the moon.

Feb. 2, 1986 -- 11:39 a.m. EST, Jan. 28, 1986.

18 suits were developed for the Space Shuttle program in 1974 and have vastly overworked their original 15-year-life design. Suit No. 1 was only used for certification, while suit two was ...