Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

The last American shuttle to leave Earth will fly over Tucson on Thursday. The shuttle is currently making its way strapped to the top of a specialized airliner from the Kennedy Space Center in ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle may be gone, but Dream Chaser is bringing the concept back - smaller, sleeker, and smarter. Designed for reusability, runway landings, and both cargo and crew transport, Dream ...

It is not every day that I can sit down and talk with a former NASA astronaut and member of the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame, but that is exactly what happened when I recently met and talked ...

Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASAs Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never ...