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 ...

Space Shuttle Main Engines In 1995, the power head was narrowed ... Orbiter Starting with STS-49 (May 1992), orbiters used a drag chute on landing, which relieves wear on the brakes and reduces ...

There may come a time when SpaceX landing ... off to space from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, marking the first time the pad has been in use since the end of the space shuttle ...

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 ...

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

(CNN)-- The space shuttle ... The shuttle will make another orbit of Earth, while NASA mission managers watch to see if extreme moisture and lightning threaten a safe landing.

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 ...

From the Challenger space shuttle tragedy to the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, it’s often all too easy to ignore t... The most shocking and surprising tragedies of the modern era were ...

(CNN)-- NASA officials have postponed the landing of space shuttle Atlantis until Saturday because of weather concerns. The first opportunity to land the shuttle at Florida's Kennedy Space Center ...

Since 2012, the space shuttle Discovery has been the centerpiece ... It had its orbiter attachments removed, needs new engines and would have to be recertified to return to flight.

HOUSTON — Texas U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on Thursday filed new legislation aimed at bringing the Space Shuttle Discovery home to the Houston area from Virginia. The bill ...