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 ...

On Feb. 8, 2010, space shuttle Endeavour began its 24th trip into space, on the 20A assembly mission to the International ...

SEATTLE — Hoping to be a part of history thousands of people continuously returned to the Mojave Desert in Mojave to watch space shuttle ... the day before each shuttle landing, Edwards allowed ...

One effect of the short was a loss of power to the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME ... possibly leading to an abort landing or requiring two tons of OMS propellant to make up, we wound up being ...

Rob Dahm is refining the unique 15.7-liter Y12 rotary engine, originally designed by Tyson Garvin as a twelve-rotor powerhouse. Garvin constructed the Y12 from a single block of 7075 aluminum, a ...

President Ronald Reagan immediately appointed a commission to investigate and report on the circumstances that led up to the ...

I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger ... If you would. Engines throttling ...

All 135 missions launched from the state's Cape Canaveral, with almost half landing there as well. "This design presents an image of a NASA space shuttle lifting off from Launch Complex 39 at ...