The last American space plane to complete a mission in orbit touched down at the Kennedy Space Center on July 21, 2011. When the Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis came to a wheel stop at the end of ...

In an effort to be the first to field a fully reusable spaceplane of the same size and scale as the Space Shuttle, Dawn ...

S.E. Seager wrote this story Nov. 7, 1983: Reporters and photographers line up to watch and photograph the space shuttle and 747. The plane and cargo circled over Santa Maria and Lompoc before ...

His new book "Shuttle, Houston" pulls back the curtain ... at an altitude of 46,000 feet, the space plane used rocket power to soar to 69,000 feet. Female astronauts have fewer opportunities ...

Like the Shuttle, Radian One would be able to deploy ... to lose steam was Britain’s Skylon, a hydrogen-powered space plane intended to take off from a reinforced runway and land back on Earth.

Mike Moses — who earned a Florida Tech master’s degree in space sciences in 1991 — delivered a spring commencement speech on ...

Sierra Space's "mini shuttle" Dream Chaser space plane may make its maiden flight in May after launching atop a rocket from ...

When NASA's space shuttle program ended after 30 years in July 2011, so too did a familiar sight often captured on television news clips – the hulking black-and-white orbiters coming in for a ...

The spaceplane measures about 29 feet (8.9 meters) long with a wingspan just shy of 15 feet (4.5 meters), about one-quarter the size of one of NASA's space shuttle orbiters. It has a cargo bay ...