NASA completed another step to ready its SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the Artemis III mission as crews at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans recently applied a thermal ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A bill introduced Thursday could help bring the Space Shuttle Discovery back home to Texas. “The first word spoken from the moon was ‘Houston.’ To honor that legacy ...

Upon its inception, NASA’s space shuttle program promised to usher in a new era of exploration, keeping astronauts space-bound with a reusable and relatively cheap ride into orbit. It was a ...

During the first two space shuttle launches, STS-1 and STS-2, the external tank (ET), then referred to as the standard weight tank, was painted white to protect its insulating foam from ...

The assembly of an upright display of the space shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center was another step closer to completion Saturday, as crews lifted a massive external fuel tank into ...

launch-ready display of the Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center. Moving the tank, known as ET-94, was a delicate operation, taking roughly two hours for the relatively short ...

The California Science Center started moving a large external space shuttle tank ... most of the tank had been covered with a 1-inch thick layer of spray-on foam to protect it from the extreme ...

Endeavour flew 25 missions in space before its final flight in 2011, eight years after another shuttle, Columbia, disintegrated on reentry in 2003, and the shuttle fleet was set for retirement.

showing how a typical mission of the redesigned Shuttle would have gone, from the actual launch from the pad to it reaching space and the fairing-loaded cargo being released before the fuel tank ...

Normally, those two things don’t overlap at all, but they did for a moment under NASA’s Space Shuttle program ... 16-scale Tiger II remote controlled tank. Tamiya Carrott proposed using ...

Spray foam insulation is a composite material formed when two chemicals (isocyanate and polyol resin, typically) meet. Kept in two separate hoppers or tanks and ... to the space in which it ...