Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed the "Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act" to move Space Shuttle Discovery from ...

If Congress decides to grant Houston a space shuttle, Space Center CEO William Harris says the city is far more ready than it ...

You’d think space would be the one place where computer ... to bang out complete lines of text at a time. To make the printer Shuttle-worthy, a 600-baud frequency-shift keying (FSK) interface ...

All 135 Space Shuttle Launches happened from Florida. There are two launch pads - 39a and 39b. First the space shuttle is taken to the Orbital Processing Facility (OPF) where maintenance takes place.

Space shuttle launches work on the same principle ... I specialize in rendezvous—making sure the spacecraft gets precisely where it needs to go once in orbit.” His colleague Richard Jones ...

IN 1981, DEVELOPMENT OF INSULATING TILES CONTRIBUTED TO DELAYS IN THE FIRST SHUTTLE LAUNCH ... are particularly vulnerable to strikes from space debris. About 30 to 100 tiles are replaced before ...