But why do NASA ... Two of these launch-vehicle specific criteria gave the U.S. the absolute hardest lesson it has had to learn about space flight on 28 January 1986 when the Shuttle Challenger ...

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.

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

The futuristic flight suits worn by Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken during Saturday's successful launch look a world away from the bulky orange shuttle ... Nasa to carry astronauts to the space ...

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 ...

Forget the launch pad: A Space ... shuttle thermal protection tiles through rainfall — and the "shocking" results showed raindrops had gouged and scoured much of the tiles away. Afterward, NASA ...

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 ...

China announces the development of Haolong, a reusable uncrewed space shuttle, designed for cargo transport to Tiangong station.