A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space ...
NASA's space shuttle was a large, heavy vehicle, and needed an even larger, heavier low-wing aircraft to transport it across ...
Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...
The 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, which took the lives of 7 astronauts, changed NASA’s culture and risk-appetite ...
But our Consumer Products business has an interesting innovation backstory with NASA and a manufacturing first 212 miles above Earth, resulting in an extraordinary achievement; the first-and only ...
NASA’s ambitious VentureStar was built to replace the Space Shuttle with a fully reusable, next-generation spacecraft — but ...