A NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter re-enters the Earth's atmosphere at about 75 miles above sea level and speeds close to 17,500 mph. When slowing down to its landing speed of about 215 mph, the orbiter's ...

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 preparation ...

Two years removed from the Columbia disaster, the June 2005 issue of Popular Mechanics investigated a growing sentiment that the space shuttle needed to be retired. Safety and staggering operating ...

At 8:44 a.m. on February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia re-entered Earth's atmosphere at around 400,000 feet. Over the next eight minutes, Columbia descended 150,000 feet at Mach 24.1, causing ...

The year was 1977 and then-President Jimmy Carter had a problem with NASA. In a diary entry from that June, Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, made clear his displeasure with the agency, which was in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Discovery was the third shuttle to head into space, but it ended up flying the most missions: 39.

Yesterday morning I was at the California Science Center's press conference outlining their plan to drag a massive spaceship across Los Angeles. It was one of those times where logistics can make even ...

Upon its inception, NASA’s space shuttle program promised to usher in a new era of exploration, keeping astronauts space-bound with a reusable and relatively cheap ride into orbit. It was a project ...

Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA’s history, the Columbia shuttle disaster reshaped the US space agency’s approach to innovation, forever altering how it balanced risk with the call to ...