Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who’ve been at the space station since June, will return to Earth along with two Crew-9 astronauts.

Launching and landing in California would require a ... The vertical stabilizer of the Space Shuttle orbiter was bigger than it needed to be, the wings were larger than any mission would require.

We're collecting photos now and downlinking those, and we're going to get a picture from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ... NASA shuttle engineer and senior manager at the Johnson Space Center ...

When people think of a space shuttle they think of the American version – the space shuttle, or orbiter ... horizontal landing on a runway. The entire mission lasted 208 minutes, and the ...

The pair of NASA astronauts who have been in space for over nine months returned to Earth on Tuesday after a new crew to ...

Over the years they’ve mastered landing the Falcon 9’s first ... 9 is a very simple design compared to the Space Shuttle. There’s no winged orbiter, no solid-propellant boosters.

When the Space Shuttle fleet returned to action ... However, there were options to allow the orbiter to make an uncrewed landing via a box of tricks to carry out some of the crew inputs, such ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off shortly after sunset this evening (Feb. 26), carrying Athena and NASA's ride-along Lunar Trailblazer orbiter aloft ... NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC).

Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months, have ...