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 ...

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

Blue Origin's eleventh space tourism launch carries a crew that features some notable celebrities, and you can watch 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 ...

By design, it separated from the booster on the way back, undergoing a period of freefall before landing with the aid of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...