Vanguard-1 is the second U.S. satellite launched to space. Conceived by the Naval Research Laboratory in 1955, it was ...

The NRO asked that the space shuttle's payload bay be large enough to accommodate any "spacecraft growth," the spy agency expected for their secretive payloads, according to the documents.

Space Shuttle Main Engines In 1995 ... with one hatch opening into the mid-deck and the other into the payload bay. In the early 1990s, the airlock was enlarged to 185 cubic feet and moved ...

A series of spectacular images of the cosmos has been released to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in space ...

The payload bay was 60 feet long with a 15-foot diameter. Unfortunately, in 2002 the hangar storing the Buran collapsed, destroying the lone Soviet space shuttle. Harrison Kass is a defense and ...

The first group of Manned Spacecraft Engineers selected for military space shuttle flights ... is long (hence the need for the shuttle’s large payload bay) to listen in on ground communications ...

it was understood that most of the components for the orbiting complex would need to fit inside the payload bay of the Space Shuttle. In practice, this meant that Station modules would need to be ...

then being carefully taken out of the payload bay and being moved into place by the shuttle’s robotic arm or the space station’s robotic arm. Although no large additions have yet been made ...

By teaming up with the James Webb Space Telescope, or by scientists delving into its long history of observations, Hubble is ...