Airlines can not afford to fly with empty seats very often – and Space Shuttle orbiters can’t leave valuable payload capacity “on the ground.” Costing hundreds of millions of dollars per flight, NASA ...

New year, new lunar lander: this time, from Firefly Aerospace on its first mission to the moon. Mare Crisium [Photo: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University] The science experiments and technology ...

European scientists will be ‘turning off’ the effects of gravity during the STS-107 Space Shuttle research mission this month in order to gain a better understanding of processes in medicine, ...

European scientists will be 'turning off' the effects of gravity during the STS-107 Space Shuttle research mission this month in order to gain a better understanding of processes in medicine, ...

Following a more than three-month delay due to technical problems, NASA's space shuttle Discovery will make its final flight Feb. 24 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying two University of ...

In the aftermath of Challenger, NASA explored Shuttle C, an uncrewed heavy lift vehicle built from existing shuttle hardware to launch massive payloads and deep space missions. Promising on paper but ...