Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

HOUSTON — Texas U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on Thursday filed new legislation aimed at bringing the Space Shuttle ...

Before leaving the space shuttle to perform tasks in space ... a parachute harness assembly, and a parachute pack. The suit, consisting of helmet, communication assembly, torso, gloves and ...

NASA’s Mobile Launcher-1, or ML-1, has rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building after completing ... both of which supported the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs before taking on similar ...

It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled out from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB ... While it hosted the Space Shuttle after that final Saturn rocket rolled out, its future is ...

Assembly of the remaining sections was revised ... The Main Propulsion System is designed around the Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME) inherited from the Space Shuttle Program; for the Core ...

First the space shuttle is taken to the Orbital Processing Facility (OPF) where maintenance takes place. When there's a Rollover to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) which is the Orbiter is ...

NASA LAST DECEMBER, THE EXTERNAL TANK THAT WILL SOON THUNDER OFF THE LAUNCH PAD bolted to the space shuttle Discovery lay on its side in NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, near New Orleans.

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 ...

The 212-foot-tall core stage was placed Sunday alongside two solid rocket boosters at Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building ... converted from the Space Shuttle Program, and ...