In the 1990s, NASA designed an experimental space plane meant to be ... version beginning flight tests — without reaching orbit — in 2028. Like the Shuttle, Radian One would be able to deploy ...

To complicate matters further, without the space shuttle and its cargo bay to bring down individual modules from the station, such a plan is, for all intents and purposes, impossible. The only ...

When people think of a space ... of the shuttle’s tailfin. However, for the Buran’s only flight, the engines were not installed. Instead, the automatic landing system landed without correction ...

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.

However, with the end of the space shuttle program in 2011, NASA canceled any further opportunities. That picture changed with the emergence of private spaceflight companies headed by various ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the decision was driven by the agency’s commitment to safety, especially after the disasters that beset the space shuttle program. The crew is expected to ...

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 ...

Without sunlight. Without a blue sky and skip of a warm breeze. It is a machine built to defy the laws of physics, comprehension and logic. It is a space shuttle only more complex we are told.

Nelson said lessons learned from NASA's two space shuttle accidents played a role ... Bad software fouled the first test flight without a crew in 2019, prompting a do-over in 2022.

Even without ... space and hang large utility hooks. If you don’t have a coat closet by your entryway, this is an easy way to organize jackets, hats and other outerwear as soon as you walk in ...