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 feet ...

The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air ... It is 122 feet long and 78 feet wide; about the size of a DC-9 commercial airliner. It is removed or placed aboard the 747 with ...

The Space Shuttle's maximum stay in orbit is less than 3 weeks… While Mir is a well-established research facility…it is much more limited than the ISS in size, resources, and versatility.

Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space shuttle program's greatest tragedy. Congress authorized NASA to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was lost ...

STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

A NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter re-enters the Earth's atmosphere ... kiln at 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit for 90 minutes. Tiles vary ...

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 ...