In 1962, NASA’s Flight Research Center in California approved the construction of a prototype lifting body aircraft, which became the M2-F1, also known as the “ Flying Bathtub .” The designation is ...

A new flight plan has been filed for a NASA winged orbiter and its jumbo jet transport, four decades after the iconic combination departed on its one and only international goodwill tour. The Lego ...

There has been only one mission of the Artemis program to date, an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft that was conducted back in 2022. Judging this solely from this perspective, you could be ...

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the space shuttle Discovery, blasted off Earth into history. The next day a ...

Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...

Almost four months after the American space agency NASA installed the first newly built RS-25 Space Shuttle engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, hardware ...