Pop artist Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King and four other notable women are set to board Blue Origins rocket today. How ...

When people think of a space shuttle they think of the American version – the space shuttle, or orbiter ... horizontal landing on a runway. The entire mission lasted 208 minutes, and the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida (CNN)-- The space shuttle Discovery landed safely ... "About the only thing that beats a beautiful orbiter landing like this is the next launch." ...

Launching and landing in California would require a ... The vertical stabilizer of the Space Shuttle orbiter was bigger than it needed to be, the wings were larger than any mission would require.

Blue Origin's footage clearly shows the capsule's hatch briefly opening from the inside before Bezos appears to open it with a tool.

(CNN)-- The space shuttle ... The shuttle will make another orbit of Earth, while NASA mission managers watch to see if extreme moisture and lightning threaten a safe landing.

IN 1981, DEVELOPMENT OF INSULATING TILES CONTRIBUTED TO DELAYS IN THE FIRST SHUTTLE LAUNCH ... or from measurements of the actual space on the orbiter. In thickness, most tiles vary from about ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery ... space-worthy orbiter in the fleet — was identified as the agency's ...