there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the story behind them is fascinating. The push for printers in space came from the combined forces of NASA’s love for checklists and the need ...

The BE-3U rocket engine, which was used for on-the-ground development work that included hot-fire testing, was installed in the museum’s Charles Simonyi Space Gallery on Monday. Eventually, a ...

The US military's robotic mini-space shuttle dropped out of orbit and glided ... time Thursday (2:22 am EST Friday), capping its high-flying mission with an automated reentry and landing on ...

STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia ... killing seven more crew members. The shuttle would continue flying until 2011, but its lifetime had laid bare the continuing dangers of ...