After Challenger reshaped NASA’s risk tolerance, Shuttle-C emerged as a bold plan to replace the orbiter with an uncrewed cargo carrier, using the existing shuttle stack to loft massive payloads for ...

The Space Shuttle-derived Heavy Lift Vehicle is the merely the latest concept that uses the Shuttle external tank and solid rocket boosters to orbit robotic spacecraft or cargo with a side-mounted ...

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...

A concept almost as old as the Space Shuttle itself is being considered as a replacement for NASA's Constellation programme return-to-the-Moon Ares rockets. Above: Artist's impression of a Space ...

A tribute to NASA's fallen space heroes is now on display for all to see, including some items for the first time ever since the Challenger and Columbia disasters. It's been nearly 30 years after ...

NASA's space shuttles are retiring this year, but America has no spaceship to replace them, leaving many to wonder: Why not? After the wheels of the space shuttle roll to a stop for the final time, ...

In 1988-1990, I lived in Orlando, Florida, and back then it wasn't all that difficult for a writer who had published for only a couple of years (in print, in those days) to get badged to watch Space ...

In the latest of new ideas for sending humans to the moon and beyond, John Shannon, NASA’s shuttle program manager, made his pitch to the Augustine panel: to use the space shuttle system’s orange fuel ...

2007-06-22T15:45:53-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/88e/199313-m.jpgVideo of the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-117 mission to the International Space ...

Tom Couch, left, of Chantilly, Va., and Carlos Rodriguez of Dumfries, Va., wait outside the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 to see the space shuttle ...