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 ...

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.

"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.

It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off. The crew had been taken twenty stories up the launch tower in a lift, with all seven members dressed in their ...

The parts for a 1972 full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city block closer to being reassembled and restored for display. The City of Downey, California began relocating "Inspiration.

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 ...

Bruce McCandless II. Photo: NASA NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II stepped away from the Space Shuttle Challenger on Feb. 7, 1984, using a jet-powered backpack called the Manned Manoeuvring Unit ...

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).

China's Shenzhou-20 mission has successfully launched into space. Scroll back through below to watch the blast off and read ...

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 ...