A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space ...
What the X-37B Really Does -America’s X-37B space plane looks like a scaled-down shuttle, but it has become one of the most ...
Once that Starship is captured and SpaceX engineers examine it, Space Center Houston would seem to be the perfect place to ...
NASA's space shuttle was a large, heavy vehicle, and needed an even larger, heavier low-wing aircraft to transport it across ...
Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...
The soon-to-be Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will double the amount of exhibit space at the California Science Center.
Thursday marked the final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery, and one lucky airliner was fortunate enough to witness its launch from a high altitude. And even ...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Back on April 12, 1981, the space shuttle roared to life for the first time. Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying two astronauts – a moonwalker, John Young, ...
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