When the space shuttle Atlantis blasts off on Friday, it will mark the final NASA shuttle mission ever. But the shuttering of the 30-year-old program isn’t the end of American space exploration — in ...
In the aftermath of the Challenger disaster, NASA explored Shuttle-C—an uncrewed, shuttle-derived cargo launcher meant to deliver massive payloads, support lunar missions, and enable assembly of ...
Since its founding in 1958, NASA has occupied a special place in the American imagination. With immense successes such as the ...
NASA's new chief Jared Isaacman said a controversial proposal to move the space shuttle Discovery to Texas from its current ...
NASA has put off the planned launch of its next-generation Orion spacecraft for a year, a setback to efforts to fly a successor to its aging space shuttles, the space agency announced Monday.
The increasing number of commercial space launches and the upward trend in upmass serve as unmistakable signs of space ...