Exploration has never been a safe occupation. For every significant discovery, there has been sacrifice by those seeking out ...

With the notable exception of the now retired Space Shuttle orbiters, essentially every object humanity ever shot into space has been single-use only. But since December of 2015, SpaceX has been ...

Bruce McCandless II. Photo: NASA NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II stepped away from the Space Shuttle Challenger on Feb. 7, 1984, using a jet-powered backpack called the Manned Manoeuvring Unit ...

This photo provided by United States Space Force the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 (OTV-7), the U.S. Space Force’s dynamic unmanned spaceplane, successfully deorbited and landed at Vandenberg ...

there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the story behind them is fascinating. The push for printers in space came from the combined forces of NASA’s love for checklists and the need ...

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 ...

NASA’s two shuttle accidents account for more than half of the names carved into the black granite of the Space Mirror Memorial; plane crashes are to blame for the rest. None of the Columbia ...

US Military's Mini Space Shuttle Returns to Earth After Orbiting for 434 Days on a Secret Mission CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. military's classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth ...