Space Shuttle

Drop whatever you're doing and watch this. NASA has released videos shot from onboard the Space Shuttle's Solid Rocket Boosters in the past, but you've never seen one prepared as masterfully as this.

Washington, D.C. and New York City greet the retiring shuttles

The first cargo resupply mission to the space station to be carried out by a commercial operator is likely to be on 30 April, the US space agency says.

An iPad has survived a mindboggling fall from near the edge of space in a new video from electronics case manufacturer G-Form. The iPad fell from a height of 100,000 feet and was still functional after hitting Earth.

New Scientist - Musk declared recently that he could put a human on Mars in 10 to 20 years' time. It is a remarkable claim, yet even more astonishingly Musk tells me that he could do it for $5 billion, and possibly as little as $2 billion - a snip when you consider that the International Space Station (ISS) has cost at...

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The United States Air Force's X-37B space plane has been circling the planet for more than 10 months, on a mystery mission shrouded in secrecy. When will it come down?

Earlier today, a Soyuz-FG rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying an International Space Station (ISS) crew into orbit

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The space shuttle Discovery took off on its final voyage on Tuesday, on a piggyback jet ride to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Virginia annex.The United

Around mid-November, authorities in Namibia were alerted to the discovery of a hollow sphere that had apparently crashed to Earth from space. What is it?

Starting next month, NASA will begin delivering its four Space Shuttle orbiters to their final destinations

Richard Garriott launched his career by creating giant, wild virtual role-playing games, and his whole life has looked like one ever since. In 2008, he followed in the footsteps of his father, the astronaut Owen Garriott, by joining the Russian Space Program, strapping into a Soyuz rocket, and becoming one of the first...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The space shuttle Enterprise flew to New York from Washington on Friday piggybacked atop a Boeing 747, making a dramatic flight along the Hudson River past the Statue of Liberty to

December 23, 2011 | We love open source. Open source philosophies and collaboration models resonate deeply with NASA and our mission. Beyond ideology, open source makes it possible for citizens to directly touch their space program in very real ways. The collective genius enabled by open source emboldens us and helps us...

Planetary Resources, Inc., a new company backed by high-profile people such as filmmaker James Cameron and Google co-founder Larry Page, plans to mine asteroids for water and platinum-group metals.

Today’s theme is the new space race. Humankind is approaching a crossroads in space exploration. The U.S. government is pulling back, but other governments have stepped their game up. And lately, the private tech industry has shown some ambition, as well. There are more dramatic photos today of a space shuttle being ferried...