The Dream Chaser space plane was integrated with the 'Shooting Star' module at NASA's Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio. Sierra ...
This story was updated at 9:49 a.m. EDT. The new spaceship being built by private aerospace firm Sierra Nevada Corp. may look like a miniature space shuttle, but while the design takes cues from the ...
One year into President Donald J. Trump’s second term, NASA is delivering measurable progress across human spaceflight, science, aeronautics, and cutting-edge technology.
NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...
For decades, flying faster than the speed of sound has meant speeding across the skies in an aircraft that creates a powerful sonic boom -- a huge noise that travels down to the ground below like a ...
A Pilatus PC-12 aircraft equipped with a portable laser terminal transmitted 4K video to the International Space Station and ...
NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who famously stayed in space for an extended nine-month visit after problems with an ...
After the Challenger disaster, the US revived an audacious idea, a runway-launched spaceplane that could reach orbit on air-breathing scramjets. This is the rise and fall of the X-30 National ...