Boeing engineers are outfitting two decommissioned space shuttle hangars at the Kennedy Space Center for the U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane, NASA announced Wednesday. The announcement in ...

At 15,000 feet (4,572 m) in length, the Shuttle Landing Facility was so long that it'd tower over everything but the most prominent mountain ranges in the world if stacked into the sky. Most normal ...

For the last time in history, a space shuttle soared into the skies over Florida on Wednesday (Sept. 19). Rather than riding on rockets and heading into orbit however, the space shuttle Endeavour was ...

In the 1990s, NASA sought to test and improve the space shuttle landing gear and braking systems. As a result, it initiated a program in which the Convair CV-990 Coronado was used as a Landing Systems ...

You hear about highly addictive video game applications such as Angry Bird and Words With Friends for your iPad and smart phone, but have you ever heard of F-SIM's Space Shuttle landing simulator?

The Space Shuttle Atlantis, led by Commander Brent Jett, is scheduled to land at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on Thursday, Sept. 21, completing space shuttle mission STS-115. Touchdown is ...

Weather is already complicating the landing of the space shuttle Discovery, currently scheduled for Friday. If the current forecast holds up, the space shuttle just might make a landing in the US ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Endeavour's highly anticipated arrival in Los Angeles has been deferred by a day. The retired spacecraft, which will be ferried on top of NASA's Shuttle Carrier ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – NASA Ames Research Center will show the live televised broadcast of the landing of STS-117 space shuttle Atlantis on Thursday, June 21. The space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Aug. 9 -- The space shuttle Discovery dropped from a starry pre-dawn sky and coasted to a smooth, safe stop in the California high desert early Tuesday, capping the ...