The New York and Los Angeles homes for two of NASA's space shuttles want to put your name in lights — actually on heat shield tiles and stars — in return for your help funding the construction of new ...

NASA officials said last night that they believe the gouge in the bottom of the space shuttle Endeavour is not severe enough to keep the spaceship from returning safely to Earth, but they want more ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – A new space shuttle tile inspection method using NASA-built, wireless scanners is replacing manual inspection. The new process begins with the upcoming shuttle mission, STS-118 ...

Click to open image viewer. Black reusable insulation tiles shielded the entire underside of the Space Shuttle orbiter, as well as portions of the vertical tail, wings, and forward and aft fuselage ...

Now the failure of the tiles is a leading theory for the catastrophic end of Columbia. NASA struggled for years in trying to ensure that the tiles were firmly attached to the shuttle, Paul Fischbeck, ...

The Space Shuttle was supposed to be rapidly reusable, but as Nasa discovered, the thermal protection tiles needed ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is taking a close look at some damage to the black thermal tiles on the belly of space shuttle Endeavour. The gouges and nicks were spotted in photos taken right before ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- With the countdown for Discovery in its final hours, NASA was dealt an embarrassing setback Tuesday when a window cover fell off the shuttle and damaged thermal tiles near ...