After years of lobbying, legislation and public back-and-forth, the Space Shuttle Discovery still isn't headed to Houston-and ...

The rise of the commercial space industry precipitated a steeper decline at Rocketdyne. Boeing sold the Rocketdyne division ...

That kind of strong leadership and great teamwork are the real safety systems of spaceflight.

Deporting Elon Musk and curtailing SpaceX's operations would significantly set back US space exploration, potentially ceding leadership to China. The US space program previously struggled with costly ...

Thirty years of flight by NASA's space shuttles will end once Atlantis returns home from this last mission. The space agency will be looking to deeper space exploration, but the future is still ...

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 ...

The X-37B program was developed as part of a partnership between the US Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office and the US Space Force. Current plans call for the United States Air Force to allocate ...

On 1970, NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil ...

While the sitting US government strips NASA of its expert leadership and funding, it seems China is more than happy to take up the mantle. A new report from the Commercial Space Federation, a lobbying ...

As the International Space Station nears retirement, a bipartisan senatorial group proposed a National Institute for Space Research for U.S. microgravity research. When you purchase through links on ...

Officially designated the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), the X-37 program began in 1999 under NASA as a testbed for reusable spacecraft technologies, ie., advanced thermal protection, autonomous reentry, ...