A proposed mission seeks to retrieve Vanguard-1 and display it as an ancient relic of the space age.

NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned to Earth from a weeklong mission at the International Space Station that turned into an unexpectedly extended stay.

Even the Space Shuttle programme, which featured reusable orbiters, provided valuable insights into reentry aerodynamics. The Apollo, Challenger, Columbia Lessons Learned Programme (ACCLLP ...

WHILE IT LOOKS LIKE A COMET, THIS APPEARS TO BE SPACE DEBRIS REENTERING THE EARTH ... seen last night over California was a spacecraft reentry," NASA confirmed to KCRA 3. The Department of ...

"The phenomenon is highly repeatable. We discovered an unplanned new technique for identifying objects entering the earth's ...

The first all-woman space crew since Valentina Tereshkova’s historic solo flight in 1963, it is made up of Perry, the pop ...

The shuttle’s skin contracts slightly while in orbit, then expands during reentry. In addition ... are particularly vulnerable to strikes from space debris. About 30 to 100 tiles are replaced ...

Bowersox saw his own space station mission abruptly prolonged. He was up there with Don Pettit, who’s currently aboard the orbiting lab, when shuttle Columbia broke apart during reentry in 2003 ...

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 ...

Returning to Earth is one of the most dangerous phases of spaceflight, and the Space Shuttle was built to endure it like no other vehicle before. As it re-entered the atmosphere at Mach 25, the ...