NASA’s new boss Jared Isaacman hinted that he could break with Texas lawmakers’ push to move iconic space shuttle Discovery ...
After Challenger reshaped NASA’s risk tolerance, Shuttle-C emerged as a bold plan to replace the orbiter with an uncrewed cargo carrier, using the existing shuttle stack to loft massive payloads for ...
The International Space Station (ISS) is humanity's most expensive object and has been in orbit for 25 years. Read its ...
In the 1990s, NASA and Lockheed Skunk Works chased a fully reusable space shuttle replacement with the X-33 and VentureStar, promising radically cheaper access to orbit. This deep dive follows the ...
Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead NASA, indicated that the space shuttle Discovery may not move from its ...
There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth orbit, or LEO, which tops out at about 1,200 miles (2 ...
A computer-generated video shows two of the SOviet Union's never-realized space projects, the Buran spaceplane and the Mir-2 ...
At the time, NASA was preparing to launch the space shuttle, Atlantis, in June 1995 on a mission to dock with the Russian Mir ...
With space tourism set for liftoff, space medicine is about to become a crucial specialty. And this place is becoming a hub ...
Jared Isaacman will lead NASA as it sends astronauts around the moon and hopes to launch a space telescope to study dark ...
The incident, described by observers as "likely caused by an internal energetic source" rather than a collision, resulted in ...