An aerospace contractor that builds rockets here in Alabama is gearing up for a historic blastoff later this year. United Launch Alliance is working with another company that wants to send a small ...

And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...

Blue Origin's star-studded NS-31 launch is the first mission to fly an all-female crew (of more than one) to outer space.

Operating in orbit demands engineering solutions beyond what any airliner or rocket could offer—and the Space Shuttle ...

back to the top- Spacesuits for the space shuttle era are pressurized at 4.3 pounds per square inch (psi), but because the gas in the suit is 100 percent oxygen instead of 20 percent, the person ...

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 ...

Not only does this epic set let you recreate your very own scale model of the Space Shuttle Discovery, it also comes with a Hubble Telescope. Price: $199.99 / £169.99 Model number: 10283 Number ...

STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...