And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...

NASA's original Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (NASA 905) is now on display at Space Center Houston and no longer flightworthy. It is exhibited with the mock orbiter Independence. | Credit: Space Center ...

If it lands Vandenburg Air Force Base in California then it will need to be flown across the United States to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is done on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA).

Discovery took off atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified Boeing 747, leaving the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:58 a.m. ET, just after dawn, for Washington. The ferry flight was ...

"The Orbital Carrier is a game-changer, acting as a pre-positioned launch pad in space." The U.S. Space Force is funding the development of a new "Orbital Carrier" spacecraft that can deploy ...

NASA's defunct space shuttles have found homes around the US and the 747s that brought them there have also been put to pasture. With no more shuttle carrier aircraft (SCAs), the agency has no ...

The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's Space Shuttle, developed during the peak of Cold War rivalry. On the surface, it looked nearly identical - but its origins tell a deeper ...

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

from SpaceWERX to demonstrate its “Orbital Carrier,” a spacecraft that can carry and preposition multiple space vehicles for responding to orbiting threats. The Stratfi is worth up to $60 ...

"It's past time that the Space Center Houston Museum houses a space shuttle," Sen. Ted Cruz said about the "Bring the Space Shuttle Home" bill. This story excerpt is courtesy of our partners at ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ... "We also have no meaningful method of transportation, since neither of the shuttle carrier aircraft are currently operable." ...