Operating in orbit demands engineering solutions beyond what any airliner or rocket could offer—and the Space Shuttle ...

for the target orbit to return. The other component of the launch window calculation is the phase window, the period during which launching the shuttle will place it in line behind the ISS and on ...

The shuttle’s skin contracts slightly while in orbit, then expands during reentry ... either from stored patterns or from measurements of the actual space on the orbiter. In thickness, most ...

The orbiters remain the only winged spacecraft to have made multiple flights into orbit. Over 30 years, 135 flights were made by five shuttles: Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis ...

The Fram2 mission will be the first human spaceflight to orbit around Earth's poles. Anyone ready for a very special and historic late-night rocket launch? Fram2, a private SpaceX spaceflight mission, ...