The United States once poured money and political capital into a spaceplane concept that promised to take off from a runway, reach orbit in a single leap, and slash the cost of spaceflight. Instead of ...

Jared Isaacman will lead NASA as it sends astronauts around the moon and hopes to launch a space telescope to study dark ...

In a new study published in the Strategic Management Journal, the team outlined NASA’s non-linear design approach. While designing the Space Shuttle, the US space agency often took a step back to ...

Discover how the International Space Station stayed alive after using Soyuz support and new shuttle inspections to keep science going.

It's been 14 years since the Space Shuttle Endeavour flew its final mission. With construction of the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center nearing completion, the shuttle now has a permanent home in Los ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most ...