When I was an aerospace engineer working on the NASA Space Shuttle Program, trust was mission-critical. Every bolt, every line of code, every system had to be validated and tested carefully, or the ...

In the 1970s, the USA was planning vast network of solar power stations, or SPS, to wean the country off oil and avoid using ...

The original full-size prototype design for the space shuttle traveled on a Downey street Thursday for a stop at a renovation facility before it lands at a museum. It looks like it could fly with its ...

Space Shuttle Orbiter Drawings Into 3-D CATIA Solid Models MSC.Software Corp. (NYSE:MNS), the leading global provider of simulation software, services and systems, today announced that NASA’s Johnson ...

button and you are flying another version of the vehicle. Press another button and you are flying the Space Shuttle or any vehicle in the VMS database,” said Mikula. In the latest round of testing, a ...

It’s every street racer’s fantasy: The government, facing an intractable problem that its brightest scientists and most dedicated agents can’t solve, turns its eye toward the hot rod community for the ...

Experts evaluating the space shuttle's readiness to return to flight later this year cautioned NASA yesterday not to rely too heavily on untested computer models to decide whether the orbiter is safe ...

China’s space administration has reportedly greenlit a new space shuttle project, more than a decade after NASA stopped flying its own iconic Space Shuttle. Unlike NASA’s Space Shuttle, China’s ...

It's been 10 years since the Columbia space shuttle accident, and spaceflight safety has come a long way — but has it come far enough? Experts say traveling to space is still a risky business, and ...