The Atlantic

How a NASA Space Shuttle Hitches a Piggyback Ride on a Boeing 747

A space shuttle flying low on the back of a plane is a sight to behold. When NASA's Discovery was ferried over Washington DC this morning, Twitter was flooded with photos of the spectacle. The staff ...
Scientific American

The Strange Saga of the Great Texas Space Shuttle Heist

Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...
NPR

PBS documentary looks at 25 years of the challenges of surviving in space on the ISS

This year is the 25th anniversary of humans inhabiting the International Space Station. A new PBS documentary looks at how the ISS was built and the challenges of surviving in outer space. The ...
The Post-Crescent

Here's how a Wisconsin student, paper scientists got astronauts to make paper in space in 1986

In 1986, an experiment conceived by an Appleton high school student resulted in the first and only paper ever made in space. The experiment, flown on the space shuttle Columbia, tested if paper made ...