NASA’s long-promised space plane is finally on the cusp of leaving the runway behind and heading for orbit, a decade after ...

A mercuric iodide crystal grown on the shuttle/Spacelab 3 mission is shown on the cover of the Oct. 7, 1985, issue, just before cutting at the EG&G Energy Measurements, Inc. Research Laboratory in ...

Space Florida, the aerospace development arm of Florida’s state government, has been named to negotiate a partnership with NASA to operate the 15,000-ft. Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) at Kennedy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although space suits, which differ from pressure suits in subtle, but important ways, have been well covered in literature, pressure suits have gone unheralded except as introductions to the space ...