NASA's storied space shuttle program experienced extraordinary ... the gliding runway landing of a spacecraft, and the first crewed test flight of a new space vehicle. Despite a few minor ...
Final assembly finished in July 1990, and the shuttle was shipped to the Kennedy Space Center in May 1991 from its assembly location in Palmdale, Calif. Endeavour's first flight was a challenging one.
Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...
R: The Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise inside of Marshall Space Flight Center's Dynamic Test Stand ... In 1974, construction of the world’s first space shuttle, known then as Orbital Vehicle-101 ...
Sierra Space's "mini shuttle" Dream Chaser space plane may make its maiden flight in May after launching atop a rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Pre-flight testing continues at NASA's ...