The proposal to uproot Space Shuttle Discovery from its museum home and ship it to Texas ignited a rare mix of outrage among ...
On Feb. 1, 2003, NASA was once again dealing with tragedy when Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven astronauts were ...
TODAY marks four decades since the Challenger space shuttle exploded just 73 seconds into its flight. Millions watched the ...
A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...
For the millions of people across the country and around the world that watched the tragic loss of Challenger live, the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. The Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) would need to be cut into ...
When a spacecraft comes home without people on board, it is not a cinematic failure but a carefully choreographed engineering ...
Walking below the shuttle Atlantis on display, the orbiter's protective heat shield tiles are visible, dinged and scratched from traveling through Earth's atmosphere. A slide in the Space Shuttle ...