"This design presents an image of a NASA space shuttle lifting off from Launch ... The CCAC opted for one of two designs showing the interior of the control center at Johnson Space Center in ...

The decades-long quest to build a reusable space shuttle tested ... The initial design received some tinkering, so much so that “the shuttle underwent physical transformations between 1969 ...

Nearly a decade before the first Space Shuttle took flight, aerospace giant Rockwell—with influence from NASA’s legendary engineering titan Maxime Faget—sketched out stunning design studies ...

In a diary entry from that June, Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, made clear his displeasure with the agency, which was in the midst of building the space shuttle ... with the design of the ...

One option may be to look backward at a shuttle design that was intended for high capacity people movement (with a maximum capacity of 86). An early draft of the space shuttle from the 1970s would ...

DOWNEY, Calif. (CNS) -- It never went into space, but a full-size original space shuttle design prototype built in 1972 as part of Rockwell International's ultimately successful bid to build NASA ...

Its design included no engine or heatshield, both necessary components of a shuttle destined for space. Enterprise was a prototype. In January 1977, after the construction of the ship was complete ...