NASA/Kenny Allen . At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the drag chute trailing space shuttle Atlantis is illuminated by the xenon lights on Runway 15 as the ...

Space shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility, completing a 16-day mission to the International Space Station on June 1, 2011.

The shuttle landing concluded a successful two-week mission. During their visit to the International Space Station, commander George Zamka and his crew installed a new room and big bay window.

WSMR’s 40-year space shuttle landing ... -100 Starliner spacecraft successfully landed within three-tenths of a mile of its target landing site at White Sands Space Harbor (WSSH). This parachute ...

There are about three Space Shuttle orbiters currently in operation - Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, which are all ...

The space shuttle program was ... Apollo used towering rockets and small capsules — destined to be flown just once — that would plunge back home from space and parachute to an ocean landing.

The space shuttle Endeavour closes out a 16-day space station construction mission with a picture-perfect landing at the Kennedy Space Center. Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program ...

December 8, 1983 - A small fire ignites on the US space shuttle Columbia during landing; no astronauts are injured. August 1991 ... drag chute, improved nose wheel steering, ...

Abandoning the space shuttle at altitude was one thing, but he mostly worried about what would happen once he was in the ocean. “I always thought it was kind of scary,” he says.

Back on April 12, 1981, the space shuttle roared to life for the first time. Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying two astronauts – a moonwalker, John Young, and a rookie, Bob ...

The space shuttle program was ... Apollo used towering rockets and small capsules — destined to be flown just once — that would plunge back home from space and parachute to an ocean landing.