The Space Shuttle is made of up of the Orbiter Vehicle, the External Tank, and 2 Solid Rocket Boosters. Missions were launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There were five orbiters built to ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Sierra Space Corporation have developed a new heat shield based on venerable 1980s Space ...

We always have it on our list to learn more about Orbiter. If you haven’t seen ... you can very accurately model spacecraft like the Space Shuttle and have very realistic controls.

A NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter re-enters the Earth's atmosphere at about 75 miles above sea level and speeds close to 17,500 ...

And wonderfully, you can visit. The aptly named Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is a full museum, with exhibits including a decommissioned Saturn V rocket, tons of memorabilia, and an actual ...

The parts for a full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city ... The City of Downey in California began relocating the winged orbiter "Inspiration" from a maintenance yard — where it ...

Many of us have visited the various displays of space shuttles around the US, and it's always a spectacular sight. The shuttle orbiter was huge, and seeing in any configuration is inspirational.

Before leaving the space shuttle to perform tasks in space ... emergency situation in which the crew must parachute from the orbiter. The suit has inflatable bladders that fill it with oxygen ...

At slower than a walking pace, the prototype that helped launch America’s space shuttle program paraded down Downey streets Thursday morning on its way to a temporary housing location in ...

The more than 120-foot-long Inspiration space shuttle mock-up will ... was created in 1972 as part of a former shuttle contractor’s process of building an orbiter for NASA.

NASA's retired Space Shuttle Endeavour was carefully hoisted ... A massive crane delicately began lifting the orbiter, which is 37m long and has a 24m wingspan, into the partially built Samuel ...