A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space ...
POWAY, Calif. SpaceDev announced today its concept for the SpaceDev Dream Chaser(TM) vehicle, a six-passenger human space transport system based on the ten-passenger HL-20 Personnel Launch System ...
BRIGHAM CITY, Utah — When the Space Shuttle Discovery was successfully launched in NASA’s “Shuttle Return to Flight” mission recently, it was thanks in part to Kenworth C500 trucks operated by ATK ...
Unbeknownst to the world, as America launched its first Space Transportation system in 1981, Russia was in the middle of ...
NASA's space shuttle was a large, heavy vehicle, and needed an even larger, heavier low-wing aircraft to transport it across ...
United Space Alliance (USA) successfully tested the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) steering system redundancy and load limits in conjunction with a live motor test firing at the Alliant ...
Science fiction is a genre filled with astronauts and space pirates docking their ships with other ships and space stations. Unless it's "Star Trek," which uses its convenient transporter to, well, ...
In the 1970s, the USA was planning vast network of solar power stations, or SPS, to wean the country off oil and avoid using ...
(Reuters) - Space shuttles have played a pivotal role in the U.S. space program. They made their debut in 1981 and enabled NASA to learn how to live and work in orbit. But the workhorse spacecraft ...