A main engine computer upgrade developed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center will fly on Space Shuttle Atlantis during the STS-117 mission, targeted for launch June 8. The upgrade is part of NASA's ...

The Space Shuttle crew have been warning of the destruction of the Earth's environment. But what damage does it do to get a shuttle into space in the first place? Observing the planet from her vantage ...

STS-26 was the 26th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the seventh operation of Discovery. The mission launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, US, and lasted four days before successfully ...

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 ...