In 1962, NASA’s Flight Research Center in California approved the construction of a prototype lifting body aircraft, which became the M2-F1, also known as the “ Flying Bathtub .” The designation is ...

"Chandra is still going strong, and still so powerful that it can read a stop sign from 12 miles away." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

As NASA prepares for its first space shuttle launching since the Columbia disaster, the question on everyone's lips is this one: Is the shuttle safe? My answer, as the former chairman of the NASA ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The United States should keep flying the space shuttles past their 2010 retirement date to avoid depending on Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space ...

Bernard Harris and Peggy Whitson were inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 31 at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Harris, the first African American to perform a spacewalk, flew on two ...

HOUSTON – NASA astronaut and Steamboat Springs, Colo., native Steven R. Swanson, a crew member of the Space Shuttle Atlantis’ STS-117 mission, is available for interviews by satellite Jan. 17. The STS ...

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 from ...

Engle is recorded as the sixth person to fly a suborbital flight and 104th to enter orbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Joe ...

Two veteran astronauts were inducted May 31 into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame — and one of them had to miss the induction ceremony as she's preparing to launch on yet another mission. Organized by ...