When a spacecraft comes home without people on board, it is not a cinematic failure but a carefully choreographed engineering ...

The length of the mission wasn't disclosed, but a previous flight lasted years. A not-so-secret, secret reusable spaceplane operated by the United States Space Force is scheduled to lift off for its ...

The launch is set for Thursday, August 21, at 11:50 p.m. ET. Catch the action live right here. Reading time 2 minutes The U.S. Space Force’s experimental spaceplane, X-37B, is ready for another go in ...

Officially designated the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), the X-37 program began in 1999 under NASA as a testbed for reusable spacecraft technologies, ie., advanced thermal protection, autonomous reentry, ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman appeared to suggest that space shuttle Discovery may not be relocated to Houston's Johnson ...

Pad 39A is well known for crewed launches, yet that chapter is over for the foreseeable future as SpaceX prepares for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. The Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) would need to be cut into ...