China has unveiled the design of a new reusable shuttle to take cargo to and from the country's space station. The Haolong space shuttle is being developed by the Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research ...

The course of human space exploration has been dynamic, to say the least. Changes in circumstance have led to drastic course corrections that have seen mission focus change in a heartbeat. One obvious ...

It’s no Fiero, but this Pontiac muscle car got fast and furious for science. It’s every street racer’s fantasy: The government, facing an intractable problem that its brightest scientists and most ...

A space shuttle design prototype built in 1972 will move through the streets of Downey ahead of being displayed at the Columbia Memorial Space Center. DOWNEY, Calif. (CNS) -- It never went into space, ...

The original full-size prototype design for the space shuttle traveled on a Downey street Thursday for a stop at a renovation facility before it lands at a museum. It looks like it could fly with its ...

Flying either the rocket-powered X-15 or Space Shuttle would already be pretty impressive, but one man actually flew both.

Genesis -- The shuttle flies -- Anatomy of the shuttle -- Thrust for the shuttle -- Flying the shuttle -- Living on the shuttle -- Coming home -- The missions -- Appendices. Space shuttle flights by ...

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

DOWNEY — It never went into space, but a full-size original space shuttle design prototype built in 1972 as part of Rockwell International’s ultimately successful bid to build NASA’s shuttles will ...

It’s every street racer’s fantasy: The government, facing an intractable problem that its brightest scientists and most dedicated agents can’t solve, turns its eye toward the hot rod community for the ...