There's truly nothing else like a space shuttle launch ... For one, why are the launch vehicles needed to get them up into space known so commonly as rockets? As it turns out, launch vehicles ...

The Space Shuttle is made of up of the Orbiter Vehicle, the External Tank, and 2 Solid Rocket Boosters. Missions were launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Get ready for the last big transport of space shuttle equipment to the ... the plan is for the solid rocket motors to be surrounded by escort vehicles and California Highway Patrol cars.

In a delicate maneuver, crews this week successfully lifted into place giant rockets ... the era of space shuttle flights, this procedure would’ve been done at NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building ...

The shape of a breadbox is not something that comes to mind when thinking about space exploration vehicles ... from the rocket and shuttle rolling out to the pad to the actual launch and ...

and it's been an incredible year for rocket debuts. Early in the year we saw small lift vehicles from Relativity Space and ABL, and in the spring Japan's H3 and SpaceX's Starship rocket.

When the spaceplane’s landing gear struck the runway on July 21, 2011, it marked the end of the line for the Space Shuttle ... massive, rocket-less, purely air-breathing launch vehicle in ...

The last American space plane to complete a mission in orbit touched down at the Kennedy Space Center on July 21, 2011. When the Space Shuttle ... rocket. A novel two-stage, heavy-lift launch ...

The premise of a single-stage space vehicle is to do away with the rocket stages entirely ... the closest analogy is probably the Space Shuttle,” Holder says. “We have a smaller bay, but ...

Get ready for the last big transport of space shuttle equipment to the ... the plan is for the solid rocket motors to be surrounded by escort vehicles and California Highway Patrol cars.