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 Space Shuttle-derived Heavy Lift Vehicle is the merely the latest concept that uses the Shuttle external tank and solid rocket boosters to orbit robotic spacecraft or cargo with a side-mounted ...

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...

A concept almost as old as the Space Shuttle itself is being considered as a replacement for NASA's Constellation programme return-to-the-Moon Ares rockets. Above: Artist's impression of a Space ...

NASA's space shuttles are retiring this year, but America has no spaceship to replace them, leaving many to wonder: Why not? After the wheels of the space shuttle roll to a stop for the final time, ...

The Space Shuttle program was extremely expensive. Shuttle turnaround times were much slower than planned. The Space Shuttle had significant safety issues, resulting in two fatal accidents. These ...

In 1988-1990, I lived in Orlando, Florida, and back then it wasn't all that difficult for a writer who had published for only a couple of years (in print, in those days) to get badged to watch Space ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's space shuttle was the world's first reusable spacecraft. It launched like a rocket and ...

Tom Couch, left, of Chantilly, Va., and Carlos Rodriguez of Dumfries, Va., wait outside the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 to see the space shuttle ...

2007-06-22T15:45:53-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/88e/199313-m.jpgVideo of the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-117 mission to the International Space ...