A test vehicle struck an electrical transformer on NASA property at Kennedy Space Center's former shuttle runway after an unexpected bird strike. The lawsuit claims the company, Johnny Böhmer Proving ...

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Contrary to appearances, the vehicle that looked like a little space shuttle was not broken down when it was being hauled down the runway at Kennedy Space Center. Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser ...

NASA completed a field test of its official lunar landing equipment at the Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida in March 2025. The agency said Tuesday it demonstrated the ability ...

SEATTLE — Hoping to be a part of history thousands of people continuously returned to the Mojave Desert in Mojave to watch space shuttle landings. During the 1980s, photographer and author Ted Huetter ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A new era of human spaceflight began in April 1981, as two NASA astronauts lifted-off aboard the first reusable winged spacecraft to set sail on the ocean of space. Nothing is ...

ST. CLOUD – A person can count on two hands how many space shuttles were made by NASA. Five were jolted into outer space — two of which were destroyed during flight — and a few replicas were built for ...

Bush Intercontinental Airport had a busy Sunday with a plane avoiding an emergency landing and a shuttle catching fire. United Airline's flight 437 from Houston to Denver, which departed at 6:02 p.m., ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – White Sands Space Harbor at White Sands Missile Range became a practice facility for landing shuttles starting in 1976. This history of White Sands’ use for shuttle landings is ...

A rendering of the space shuttle Endeavour as it's expected to appear in the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center. (Ron McPherson / California Science Center Foundation) After more than a decade on ...