What happens when an aircraft is built to carry the future of Soviet space missions? The Antonov An-225, the world’s largest ...

R: The Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise inside of Marshall Space Flight Center's Dynamic Test Stand for Mated Vertical Ground Vibration tests (MVGVT). Images: NASA These are the voyages of the space ...

From 2005 until 2011, a Space Shuttle would have to perform a backflip, called the R-bar Pitch Manoeuvre or Rendezvous Pitch Manoeuvre (RPM), to allow the crew aboard the International Space ...

It recalls the so-called Pumpkin suits used by space shuttle astronauts ... was also called the EMU - though it's different from the modern design. It was the result of years of development.

Practically prehistoric compared to modern aircraft ... by the more advanced F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II. 7. Space Shuttle: the first reusable spaceplane It developed around the same ...

With 39th President Jimmy Carter passing away at the age of 100, we are revisiting this story of how he unexpectedly saved the space shuttle. We’d been chatting for the better part of two hours ...

As the old story about the space shuttle and the horse's backside reminds us, some things in our economy change slowly. But a lot of the modern economy moves very quickly indeed. No wonder some ...

The Titans spaceplanes are designed for high-frequency operations, with the capability to launch spacecraft, cargo, and ...

If you're remembering back to NASA's legacy Space Shuttle, which launched from 1981 to 2011, that was a smaller rocket. It's dwarfed by these newcomers. According to NASA, it stood at only 184 ...