The eventual decision to send Williams and Wilmore home on the SpaceX Crew-9 mission, which NASA announced over the weekend, was informed by lessons from the agency's two space shuttle disasters.

Today, easily replaced heat-resistant tiles used on the space shuttle are used to dissipate heat. Aircraft in operation are ...

The next generation of aircraft carrier, the Gerald R. Ford class (CVN 78) was ordered in 2008 and is slated to be delivered in 2016 as the force structure replacement for USS ENTERPRISE (EX-CVN ...

there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the story behind them is fascinating. The push for printers in space came from the combined forces of NASA’s love for checklists and the need ...

This set of toy airplanes and spacecraft includes several experimental aircraft and the Space Shuttle Enterprise, NASA's test vehicle for Space Shuttle approach and landing tests. The vehicles ...

Walk the decks of the legendary aircraft carrier Intrepid ... Get an up-close look at the space shuttle Enterprise and British Airways Concorde, and enter Growler, the only guided missile ...

Aircraft carriers are among the largest vessels ever built, but even they can't compare to the length of a runway. The runway ...

Side view. simple illustration of a space shuttle launching into the space in side view. aircraft carrier vector stock illustrations Space shuttle launching into the space. Side view. simple ...

Astronaut Fred Haise, a veteran of the Apollo 13 mission, wore this flight suit while commanding five of the eight piloted Approach and Landing Test flights of Space ... guided Enterprise upon its ...

and blast off into space. Instead, SpaceShipOne would be carried to altitude by WhiteKnightOne, a twin-fuselage carrier aircraft. After separating from its mothership, SpaceShipOne would light its ...

On Sept. 17, 1787, the U.S. Constitution, completed in Philadelphia, was signed by a majority of the 55 delegates to the ...

After tours of duty in World War II and Vietnam, this 900-foot-long aircraft carrier found ... In 2012, the museum acquired the space shuttle Enterprise. And at the kid-friendly Exploreum, little ...