The Space Shuttle had no engines on landing, no go-around, and no second chance, so NASA built a bizarre solution. By converting a Gulfstream II into the Shuttle Training Aircraft, astronauts could ...

Four of the astronauts selected for the Space Shuttle Challenger mission in 1986 sit in the shuttle mission simulator (SMS). From left to right: Michael J. Smith, Ellison S. Onizuka, Judith A. Resnik ...

The flight of the Discovery on November 22, 1989 was the first shuttle under the command of an African American astronaut — ...

Spend a day with me at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Florida’s Space Coast, as I meet a former NASA astronaut and ...

North American Aviation’s X-15 rocket plane reached 4,520 mph and climbed to 354,200 feet during a program that ran from 1959 ...

NASA Langley Research Center has led aeroscience research for the Artemis II mission, and aims to lend its robotics to future missions to the moon and Mars.

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Southwest Research Institute’s (SwRI) Board of Directors has named Dr. Ben Thacker, P.E., chief operating officer (COO). Thacker previously served as the vice president of SwRI’s Mechanical ...

The footprint appears on the order of hundreds of meters to a couple of kilometers across (central pad ~100–200 m diameter, with radial/arc-shaped surrounding ...

SwRI's new COO Ben Thacker has worked on engineering projects ranging from submarines, NASA space shuttles and the U.S. nuclear stockpile.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 28th January 1986: An abstract smoke pattern after the space shuttle Challenger explosion, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.Dave ...

Texas lawmakers have been pushing to move the space shuttle Discovery from Virginia to the Johnson Space Center in Houston. New NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has suggested Discovery may not be ...