The last American space plane to complete a mission in orbit touched down at the Kennedy Space Center on July 21, 2011. When the Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis came to a wheel stop at the end of ...

Space Force’s high-tech, uncrewed space plane is back on land. The X-37B returned to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility this morning just after 5:22 a.m. Eastern Time.

The space plane lands on the former space shuttle runway, now called the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The exact moment the space plane lands is confidential ...

Like previous missions, the reusable plane resembling a mini space shuttle carried classified experiments. There's no one on board. The space plane took off aboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket ...

Sierra Space's "mini shuttle" Dream Chaser space plane may make its maiden flight in May after launching atop a rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Pre-flight testing continues at NASA ...

Columbia was the first Space Shuttle to launch and redefine space travel. And though it took off like a rocket, it landed with the smoothness of a plane, and was even reusable — making it the ...

Reusable space planes have fallen out of favor since the end of the US Space Shuttle program, but Siera Space is one step closer to bringing them back. The company's in-development Dream Chaser ...

SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket lofted a secretive space plane for the US Space Force ... Shaped like a mini-space shuttle, the X-37B is an uncrewed and reusable experimental test platform ...

On August 12, 1977, NASA entered a new era with the launch of the Enterprise, a space shuttle prototype that ... Space Shuttles above the body of the plane. The first captive flight of the ...