Discovery took off atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified Boeing 747, leaving the Kennedy Space Center in Florida ... The ferry flight was expected to take about three and a half hours.

Liftoff is now set for 10:09 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40. The Falcon 9 rocket will be carrying the Starlink 12 ...

which lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, is on a 14-day mission to deliver supplies needed to expand the International Space Station. NASA officials noticed the bat before shuttle's ...

"Eleven space shuttle missions lifted off with classified payloads, which took advantage of features of the winged orbiters that the NRO requested when the shuttle was being designed," Pearlman said.

How we looked at the space shuttle taking off for the first time is comparable to the Pioneer Zephyr. From the aspect of design it looked like no other train in existence. The interior was also ...

First the space shuttle is taken to the Orbital Processing Facility (OPF) where maintenance takes place ... The launch involved Lift Off, Roll Program, Max-Q, and Main Engine Cut Off (MECO).

Launching a rocket into space is a bit like jumping off a moving merry-go-round. You wait until you see the exit coming around, factor in the time it’ll take you to coil up and launch yourself ...

When the outer portion of a tile gets hot, the heat takes a long time to work its way down through the rest of the tile to the shuttle’s skin ... tiles or shake them off. To keep them in ...

there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the story behind them is fascinating. The push for printers in space came from the combined forces of NASA’s love for checklists and the need ...