Boeing engineers are outfitting two decommissioned space shuttle hangars at the Kennedy Space Center for the U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane, NASA announced Wednesday. The announcement in ...

At 15,000 feet (4,572 m) in length, the Shuttle Landing Facility was so long that it'd tower over everything but the most prominent mountain ranges in the world if stacked into the sky. Most normal ...

"Mission complete, Houston. After serving the world for over 30 years, the space shuttle has earned its place in history. It's come to a final stop." With those words, astronaut Christopher Ferguson ...

All tires are built more or less the same, right? They're just hunks of rubber formed into the shape of a circle and slapped on a set of wheels, or so you would think. But as petrolheads all know, the ...

In the 1990s, NASA sought to test and improve the space shuttle landing gear and braking systems. As a result, it initiated a program in which the Convair CV-990 Coronado was used as a Landing Systems ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Endeavour's highly anticipated arrival in Los Angeles has been deferred by a day. The retired spacecraft, which will be ferried on top of NASA's Shuttle Carrier ...

The Space Shuttle Atlantis, led by Commander Brent Jett, is scheduled to land at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on Thursday, Sept. 21, completing space shuttle mission STS-115. Touchdown is ...

Weather is already complicating the landing of the space shuttle Discovery, currently scheduled for Friday. If the current forecast holds up, the space shuttle just might make a landing in the US ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Aug. 9 -- The space shuttle Discovery dropped from a starry pre-dawn sky and coasted to a smooth, safe stop in the California high desert early Tuesday, capping the ...