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 ...

The United States once poured money and political capital into a spaceplane concept that promised to take off from a runway, reach orbit in a single leap, and slash the cost of spaceflight. Instead of ...

In 1962, NASA’s Flight Research Center in California approved the construction of a prototype lifting body aircraft, which became the M2-F1, also known as the “ Flying Bathtub .” The designation is ...

This article was originally featured on The Drive. When the spaceplane’s landing gear struck the runway on July 21, 2011, it marked the end of the line for the Space Shuttle. An incredible ...

It's been 10 years since the Columbia space shuttle accident, and spaceflight safety has come a long way — but has it come far enough? Experts say traveling to space is still a risky business, and ...

China’s space administration has reportedly greenlit a new space shuttle project, more than a decade after NASA stopped flying its own iconic Space Shuttle. Unlike NASA’s Space Shuttle, China’s ...

MIAMI (Reuters) - When the United States embarked on its shuttle programme decades ago, it set out to build a workhorse vehicle that would make space travel routine and beat the Soviets during the ...

A Sept. 15 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a meme made up of two images. One is a Lockheed Martin SR-71 "Blackbird" jet with a streamlined shape and proportionally large engines. The ...

Feb. 10, 2003 -- When the space shuttle first launched on April 21, 1981, it opened a whole new era in space exploration for NASA. For the first time, the agency — and the world — had a space vehicle ...