NASA are set to launch a space shuttle on Christmas Eve that will take the first US lander to the moon in more than half a century. Preparations have begun at Cape Canaveral in Florida for take ...

It is the same one used by the last NASA astronauts to launch from American soil, the Space Shuttle Atlantis crew in July 2011. Indeed, Launch Complex 39 A and B have been the site of every U.S ...

Four veteran Space Shuttle Main Engines will benchmark the performance of the rookie Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage in the final two critical tests of NASA’s Green Run campaign.

Pad 39A hosted the inaugural Shuttle launch ... Pad 39B is still owned by NASA and will be used to launch their future Space Launch System rocket and potentially Orbital ATK’s Next Generation ...

After nearly 30 years and 134 liftoffs NASA launched its final shuttle into orbit. Space shuttle Atlantis will carry out the program's last mission. While the future of NASA's budget still remains ...

A NASA Space Shuttle ... 1979 target launch date to the April 1981 actual launch date. A single shuttle tile can cost up to ...

Since the Apollo program, astronauts making the nine mile trip from the Operations and Checkout Building to the launch ... the NASA “meatball” carried crews up until the final Shuttle rolled ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — It is an iconic machine whose work has spanned nearly the entire history of NASA. And without it, the Saturn V rocket and space shuttle launches would not have been possible.

Almost immediately after its launch it was discovered that its mirror had an aberration causing images to be blurry, so it was visited in orbit by astronauts aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle ...

NASA's Nick Hague and Russian Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch in September ... in the post-shuttle era. Williams and Wilmore were Boeing's first crew, arriving at the space station in June for ...