NASA modified a Boeing 747 into the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), which was specially designed to transport space shuttles on its back. The Enterprise was NASA's first space shuttle orbiter ...

On May 16, 2011, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on its 25th and final flight. This was also the ... and spent nearly 16 days in orbit. The first two days were spent catching up to the ...

Taylor Jenkins Reid loves to research before writing. She's penned novels set in the golden age of Hollywood in “The Seven ...

Elon Musk and a new generation of entrepreneurs are at the forefront of a second space race with the dream of landing on Mars ...

These thrilling missions mark America's first return to reusable hypersonic flight testing since that manned X-15 program ended in 1968. Stratolaunch is a revolutionary air-launch enterprise ...

Congress directed NASA to design the SLS using 1970s-era space shuttle ... flight. In addition to traveling farther from Earth than any astronauts since the Apollo Moon program, Isaacman became ...

More than 600 invited guests, famously including Star Trek stars, plus 185 media representatives, attended the ceremony to see NASA unveil its first space shuttle. In January 1977, Enterprise was ...

The concept is simple: To cut through traffic, visitors to the Olympics Games could board an electric flying taxi after ...

It’s slightly smaller than the 2,354-piece Discovery set that debuted in 2021, but Lego’s new Space Shuttle Enterprise is part of a larger 2,417-piece set that includes a buildable replica of the ...

The mint set noon EDT on Thursday (May 15) as its T-0 for the launch of Florida's dollar celebrating the retired spacecraft.

Blue Origin sent six people to space on a suborbital spaceflight May 31 that the company’s chief executive says is a good ...