Mashable The slightly more surprising detail contained in the newly-released documents is the fact that the NRO actually had input on the design of the shuttles themselves. "Eleven space shuttle ...

The Space Shuttle was a product of the cold war, and although the orbiters themselves were never purely military craft, the choices made during the design of the Space Shuttle were heavily ...

Space Shuttle Main Engines In 1995, the power head was narrowed from a three-duct injector design to a two-duct one, and in 1998 the combustion chamber’s throat was enlarged. The changes reduced ...

NASA hasn't closed the door on the possibility — and the man in line to be the agency's next chief is a champion of the idea.

The roar of rocket engines, the trembling earth beneath your feet, and a pillar of fire slicing through the sky—few human ...

Remember when NASA was laser focused on that? It was 35 years ago when the Hubble Space Telescope deployed into orbit, sent ...

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...

Due to the design of the Space Shuttle, no contingency plan or emergency procedure could have saved the crew at this point in the mission: all seven crew members were lost in this tragedy.

The report urged a recommitment to human space flight while implementing ... Hal Gehman, board chairman, said at a news conference that the shuttle design itself is safe. "If we thought the ...

WASHINGTON — The space shuttle Discovery, NASA's fleet leader and the world's most flown spacecraft, lifted off for the last time on Tuesday to be delivered to the Smithsonian for its permanent ...

And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed the "Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act" to move Space Shuttle Discovery from ...