NASA’s Space Shuttle operated in low-Earth orbit for 30 years before its retirement in 2011. However, the US space agency’s replacement for this vehicle, Orion, returned to the conical capsule ...

SpaceX lost a Starship rocket in a huge explosion on Wednesday. But considering the way the company operates, it wasn't a ...

The final journey for the last space shuttle ever built is complete ... but to inspire the next generation of space explorers, serving as the pièce de résistance of the still-under-construction ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Sierra Space Corporation have developed a new heat shield based on venerable 1980s Space Shuttle technology to protect the next generation of reusable spacecraft ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with NASA's astronaut selection manager April Jordan about what the agency is looking for in the next generation ... that featured a space shuttle prototype and an ...

The suit, originally developed for Space Shuttle missions that started in ... change when astronauts aboard Artemis III sport the next generation of spacesuits. The mission planned for late ...

Next-Generation Spaceplanes Are the Cutting-Edge Evolution of the Space Shuttle Dream For its seventh mission, the spaceplane is also carrying a NASA experiment designed to expose plant seeds to ...

She said the decision to use space shuttle components for the agency's next-generation rocket seemed like a terrible idea, given the challenges of working with hydrogen demonstrated over the ...

After four decades on the leading edge, he is embarking on his next challenge: retirement ... it's easy to see how the dots connected.” Klaus has supported Space Shuttle launches, played an active ...

NASA began offering Space Shuttle tiles to schools, universities, and museums in a bid to inspire the next generation of space explorers. The Space Shuttle wasn't the first manned NASA spacecraft ...

Space Shuttle Atlantis launched May 4 ... come full circle a year later when she appeared on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as Lieutenant junior grade Palmer in the episode Second Chances.