The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

s Solid Rocket Booster is scheduled to fire for 123.1 seconds Thursday, Nov. 1, at a Utah test facility. Results from the test – conducted at the Promontory, Utah, facilities of ATK Thiokol Propulsion ...

“I would much rather see that money invested in NASA’s science program,” said Garrett Reisman, who flew on Discovery as a former astronaut, as the nation’s most traveled space shuttle is entangled in ...

Operating in orbit demands engineering solutions beyond what any airliner or rocket could offer—and the Space Shuttle delivered them all. It used precision helium-pressurized tanks and toxic, ignition ...

A crack on the space shuttle Discovery is of big interest to people like North Carolina State University mechanical and aerospace engineer Dr. Fred Dejarnette, who helped develop the protective tiles ...

There was even a day not too long ago when printers appeared to be going the way of the dodo; remember the “paperless office” craze? But then, printer manufacturers invented printers so cheap they ...

McClelland claims he is a retired NASA spacecraft operator (ScO) who worked with NASA’s Shuttle Fleet at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida from 1958 to 1992. He was involved in hundreds of NASA ...

One of the most eye-catching and difficult aspects of the California Science Center’s $400-million Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center project to create a space shuttle exhibit took place Jan. 29.