The X-15 program pushed human flight into hypersonic speeds and the edge of space long before the Space Shuttle, with pilots like Neil Armstrong and Joe Walker shattering altitude records and crossing ...
Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, both Republicans of Texas, want the space shuttle Discovery to be moved to Space Center Houston from its current location at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near ...
NASA’s ambitious VentureStar was built to replace the Space Shuttle with a fully reusable, next-generation spacecraft — but technological failures and political battles brought the program to a halt.
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection contains 17 digital images showing the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia upon its reentry on February 1, 2003. These ...