Old Space Shuttle payloads weighed up to 27,500 kilograms (60,600 pounds) in low-Earth orbit missions. The Tenacity spaceplane and the Sierra Space’s Shooting Star™ service module can deliver 5,500 ...

Launched by SpaceX, the space plane with no one aboard took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It’s the eighth such flight for ...

Back in the 1970s, the designers behind the Space Shuttle had drafted up plans for a passenger-hauling spacecraft that would carry huge space crews to orbit.

Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 16, 2003. It was the 28th mission for the orbiter, with the STS-107 crew set to carry out experiments over the ...

One shuttle’s name even made reference to the television spacecraft, Enterprise. The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983.

The grand opening of the Independence Plaza at Space Center Houston took place Jan. 23. The new exhibit lets visitors climb inside NASA 905, the 747 jetliner used to ferry the space shuttle, and a ...