The Space Shuttle was and forever will be a very special vehicle in the history of space exploration. Over the course of three decades starting in 1981, the small fleet of spaceplanes took to the sky ...

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 ...

Now that the Space Shuttle missions are ending, NASA is cleaning house. While complete shuttles are for sale at 50 percent off "retail," the deal of the century must be the free engines. These spare ...

A main engine computer upgrade developed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center will fly on Space Shuttle Atlantis during the STS-117 mission, targeted for launch June 8. The upgrade is part of NASA's ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 engines, recently passed a critical milestone that put the integrated system to ...

Pam Melroy, one of only two women to ever command a NASA space shuttle, is channeling her decades of experience across the U.S. Air Force, DARPA, the FAA and private industry to pioneer a ...

FOR LATER: The 15 remaining RD-25D space shuttle main engines are on the way from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, where they will be stored until needed to ...

Curator Tom Lassman tells students what type of engine the Space Shuttle used, during an episode of STEM in 30. STEM in 30 - Your Ticket to Space: Commercial ...