The Space Shuttle-derived Heavy Lift Vehicle is the merely the latest concept that uses the Shuttle external tank and solid rocket boosters to orbit robotic spacecraft or cargo with a side-mounted ...

A concept almost as old as the Space Shuttle itself is being considered as a replacement for NASA's Constellation programme return-to-the-Moon Ares rockets. Above: Artist's impression of a Space ...

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...

NASA's space shuttles are retiring this year, but America has no spaceship to replace them, leaving many to wonder: Why not? After the wheels of the space shuttle roll to a stop for the final time, ...

NASA Gets a $6 Billion Booster for Mars and Beyond Find hope in this, NASA, science and Mars fans: President Obama's new stance on NASA's funding will likely pump no less than $6 billion into the ...

Tom Couch, left, of Chantilly, Va., and Carlos Rodriguez of Dumfries, Va., wait outside the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 to see the space shuttle ...

To alert the public, my colleagues and I formed the Shuttle Advocates Team (SAT), an informal group of mostly retired Rockwell and Boeing engineers, with many years of experience working on the space ...

2007-06-22T15:45:53-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/88e/199313-m.jpgVideo of the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-117 mission to the International Space ...

The Space Shuttle program was extremely expensive. Shuttle turnaround times were much slower than planned. The Space Shuttle had significant safety issues, resulting in two fatal accidents. These ...

In 1988-1990, I lived in Orlando, Florida, and back then it wasn't all that difficult for a writer who had published for only a couple of years (in print, in those days) to get badged to watch Space ...