There may come a time when SpaceX landing a rocket stage back on Earth after flying to ... the pad has been in use since the end of the space shuttle program. Mashable Light Speed Want more ...

SEE ALSO: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Video: The Final Flight According to a report by Matt Novak at Gizmodo, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) -- the secretive intelligence organization ...

A look back at Apollo 11: Florida Today coverage of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing Next the VAB became the focal point for the Space Shuttle Program, and now 52 years since humanity last ...

(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.

Each shuttle ... re exposed to back into the atmosphere, while the tiles’ interior absorbs the rest. The tiles’ interiors radiate absorbed heat so slowly that after landing, the tiles take ...

(CNN)-- NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, along with two cosmonauts, rode in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that made a gut-wrenching, off-target landing ... space station missions. Unlike the space ...

A notable exception is the space shuttle main engine ... During some late 1977 approach and landing tests, in which the orbiter was mounted on the back of a Boeing 747, taken aloft, and released ...

Revving up to extreme speed, the Maserati MC20 screamed just shy of the 200-mph barrier while zooming down the center of NASA's old space shuttle landing strip — with nobody in the driver's seat.