DARPA Once Planned to Fit Cargo on Top of the Space Shuttle External Tank, CGI Shows How
27 Nov 2023, 14:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Space Shuttle was the source of many spaceship design ideas, one of them, the Hammerhead, callled for a fairing to be fitted on the fuel tank
Spacemaster Is the Wacky Shuttle That Might Have Been, CGI Makes It Fly for the First Time
15 Sep 2023, 08:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Martin Marietta Spacemaster was a spaceship design proposed and rejected in the 1960s, it's an aternative take on the Shuttle we know and love
Lambo Urus Super-SUV Blows Past Tranquil Space Shuttle for 163-MPH Standing Mile
9 May 2023, 07:48 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Formerly known as the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF), the airstrip located on Merritt Island in Florida is now home to the Johnny Bohmer Proving Grounds
This Rocket Could Have Been More Spectacular Than the SpaceX Starship (and the SLS)
24 Apr 2023, 08:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's Shuttle-Derived Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle is alive thanks to computer animation, showing the world another space vehicle that never came to be
30 Years Ago, the ESA Almost Built Their Own Space Shuttle, Details Inside
18 Mar 2023, 20:25 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's hard to fathom the ESA venturing on their own to build a human-crewed re-useable space vehicle that didn't involve NASA or their own Space Shuttle
The Future of Spaceflight Will be Fraught With Danger, Humanity Shouldn't Shy Away
11 Feb 2023, 10:10 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The loss of Columbia ensured that the Space Shuttle program wasn't long for this world. By the early 2010s, the four shuttles that remained were retired.
20 Years Ago, Space Shuttle Columbia's Tragic Loss Changed Spaceflight Forever
31 Jan 2023, 21:09 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Even beyond the unimaginable human loss on February 1st, 2003, the effects of the STS-107 mission affected how NASA operates today on a profound level.
Apollo Space Shuttle Looks Like Just Half a Spaceship, Could Still Have Reached the Moon
5 Jan 2023, 12:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Apollo space program had to rely only on one-use hardware, but re-usable spaceships like this here shuttle were on the drawing boards
Maker of Saturn V and Shuttle Engines Sells for a Fraction of What Musk Paid for Twitter
20 Dec 2022, 09:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Defense contractor L3Harris announced it is buying Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings for $4.7 billion in a deal that will give it access to new tech
Nine-Rocket Skyward “Drag Race” Is the Most Spectacular Thing You’ll See All Week
13 Dec 2022, 12:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Nine of the most powerful and fastest rockets ever made go at each other in animated race to the sky of cosmic proportions
Sierra Space's Dream Chaser Looks Wicked on the Assembly Line, 1st Launch in February
14 Nov 2022, 20:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In recent photographs taken from Sierra Space's manufacturing facility, we see just how similar the nearly complete Dream Chaser appears compared to the Shuttle
NASA Confirms Finding of Space Shuttle Challenger Artifact by Documentary Divers
11 Nov 2022, 06:40 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / Divers working on a documentary in the Bermuda Triangle discovered a large chuck of the underbelly of what they thought was from Challenger
Space Shuttle vs Dream Chaser: Can This Pint Sized Space Plane Really Replace an Icon?
21 Oct 2022, 23:18 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Thanks to the Sierra Nevada and its Sierra Space sub-division, the era of the reusable space plane is not at an end. If anything, it's only getting started.
STS-93: The Wild Story of the Space Shuttle Mission That Hauled the Heaviest Payload
4 Oct 2022, 20:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With 5,860 kg (12,930 lb) of mass at launch, CXO was packed to the gills with sensors, solar arrays, and electrical generators.
Space Station Freedom: America's Idea For The World's Best Space Station Pre ISS
4 Oct 2022, 01:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It goes without saying that the ISS will never be the same when and if the Russians ever do follow through with their intentions to leave.
Guy Buys Airstream RV at Auction, Turns Out to Be NASA's Space Shuttle Convoy Command Van
13 Sep 2022, 13:57 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / An Airstream Executive Air Coach sold at a government auction for $21,061 turns out to be NASA’s Convoy Command Van for the Space Shuttle program
Space Shuttle Food Looks Horrifying in Its Packaging, Supposedly Tastier Than It Looks
13 Jul 2022, 02:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / t must be said, some of the food items on display in this exhibit look especially ghastly. Especially in this dehydrated form
Here's What a Space Shuttle Tire Looks Like After a Hard Landing, It's Pretty Brutal
11 Jul 2022, 19:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You can very easily see just how much of the rubber compound was stripped away as the Shuttle made its touchdown at the Kennedy Space Center
Star Clipper Lifting Body Spaceplane Is the Space Shuttle of an Alternative Reality
23 Apr 2022, 04:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Star Clipper was the name of a reusable spaceplane design cooked up in the 1960s over at Lockheed, never came to be made.
Grumman 619 Shuttle: The Killer Looking Concept That Nearly Became the Space Shuttle
19 Feb 2022, 00:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / To give you an idea of how exciting it was to work for Grumman in the late 60s and early 70s, their LEM successfully transported humans to the Moon.