The United States once poured money and political capital into a spaceplane concept that promised to take off from a runway, ...

This is the story of the Chrysler SERV, the bizarre-looking SSTO spacecraft that could've only been designed by Chrysler at ...

She worked on preparations for the second, third, and fourth shuttle missions, and was a Cape Crusader at the Kennedy Space ...

Over the last 122 years of flight, there certainly hasn’t been a lack of innovation. Engineers, designers, and pilots all […] ...

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 ...

The ability of Russia to launch astronauts to the International Space Station remains in limbo after an incident last week at the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan.

It was not really until the climax of the Space Race that the US gained the upper hand against the USSR in space exploration. When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969, America was finally ...

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Three Chinese astronauts are stuck in space after their shuttle was used to cart another group back to Earth, leaving them in the dust. Astronauts Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang, all with the ...

When NASA needed a taxi service for its roughly 100-ton space shuttles, it couldn't exactly call an Uber. The agency needed a plane powerful enough for the job. It dug around, and the two candidates ...

As the International Space Station nears retirement, a bipartisan senatorial group proposed a National Institute for Space Research for U.S. microgravity research. A bipartisan group of senators wants ...

Rockwell Automation plans to build a new 1 million-square-foot production facility in southeastern Wisconsin. The city of New Berlin is being considered as a possible location for the new facility, ...