During some late 1977 approach and landing tests ... titled Incredible Facts: Space Shuttle Main Engines. For a month, there was a flurry of publicity. I expected the newsworthiness of the ...

The rocket is powered by one BE-3PM engine, which propels it to suborbit before restarting to slow the booster to just 6 mph ...

SEE ALSO: SpaceX's most recent rocket landing looks like something out of science fiction "NASA’s space shuttle orbiters, the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B, and the Soviet Union’s VA spacecraft ...

But just 73 seconds after blast-off, the shuttle burst into flames, leaving a cloud of smoke in the sky before it plummeted into the ocean. Shortly after taking off, the boosters gave off some ...

A driverless Maserati MC20 supercar has shattered the world speed record for autonomous vehicles, reaching 197.7 mph during a ...

Pop star Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King were among six women who traveled aboard Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin’s ...

Early examples of the Space Launch System will use refurbished Space Shuttle engines, before NASA transitions ... that Orion will not be used for lunar landing, however. Instead, current plans ...

Katy Perry, the pop star whose lengthy catalogue includes a few songs that reference aliens and shooting across the sky.

When people think of a space shuttle they think of the ... Instead, the automatic landing system landed without correction from engines. Had the engines been installed, they likely would have ...

By Sage Rohrbach An image of the New Shepard Capsule, the same capsule that carried celebrities Katy Perry and Gayle King.  Courtesy of NASA Flight Opportunities via Wikimedia Commons In 1961, ...

The wives, husbands and children of the astronauts who had been waiting at the landing strip were gathered together by Nasa and taken to a secluded place. "A contingency for the space shuttle has ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery ... needs new engines and would have to be recertified to return to flight.