Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

The shuttle main engine is the most ... underwent airflow tests to help engineers create more efficient aircraft engines. NASA The Space Shuttles's first flight, a two-day mission launched on ...

The Space Shuttle was one of the most complex and ambitious spacecraft ever designed, pioneering reusable spaceflight and enabling decades of missions. With massive solid rocket boosters, advanced ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER ... needed to expand the station's crew to six people. The shuttle launched at 7:43 p.m. Sunday, after NASA engineers repaired a leaky gas line. The hydrogen leak caused ...

Space shuttle launches work on the same principle, just on a much larger scale and with many more variables. Engineers calculate how much time they have—down to the minute or even second—to ...

Since 2012, the space shuttle Discovery has been the centerpiece of the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly ...

When Space Shuttle Columbia launched in January 2003, a piece of foam the size of a briefcase broke off from the shuttle's external fuel tank and hit the left wing. Some shuttle engineers worried ...

A team of researchers and engineers ... space agency sent astronauts to retrieve the wayward but otherwise functional spacecraft, according to NASA. The satellites were placed in the Space Shuttle ...

It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off ... Apparently, a number of NASA engineers had raised this issue that was caused by freezing temperatures the night ...