After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to ...

BBC World Service and BBC Sounds have announced their multi-award winning podcast 13 Minutes To The Moon is to return with a ...

There is a long process to get the Space Shuttle into orbit around the Earth, primarily taking place at Kennedy Space Center ...

Once in orbit, the Space Shuttle orbiter transformed into a sophisticated mobile outpost. It featured 44 thrusters for ultra-precise maneuvering, a powerful robotic arm capable of fine movements in ...

The ISS spans 356 feet, just shy of an American football field’s length. It was assembled in space via 42 missions, 37 by ...

Much of the shuttle’s storied history was written in Houston, home to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. But today, Discovery rests ...

This ambitious shuttle orbiter concept was a post-Apollo pipe dream we never got. This article was originally featured on The Drive. ... 2011, it marked the end of the line for the Space Shuttle.

Upon its inception, NASA’s space shuttle program promised to usher in a new era of exploration, keeping astronauts space-bound with a reusable and relatively cheap ride into orbit.

With the Endeavour orbiter — the last space shuttle ever built — crews will need to maneuver an object with a 78-foot wingspan and get “everything absolutely level and aligned properly, ...

Space shuttle Endeavour is lifted into the sky, takes final position as star of new museum wing. ... The orbiter was enclosed to protect it from work site pollution and the elements.

A NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter re-enters the Earth's atmosphere at about 75 miles above sea level and speeds close to 17,500 mph. When slowing down to its landing speed of about 215 mph, the orbiter ...

Should the city of Houston, which proudly bills itself as "Space City," have a prized Space Shuttle orbiter on public display? More than a decade ago, arguably, the answer was yes.