The decades-long quest to build a reusable space shuttle ... and inspired by Nazi rocket planes like the Silbervogel and the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet — the shuttle was also seen as the ...

The post The Space Shuttle’s Ecological Legacy: From Rocket Fuel to Wildlife Refuges appeared first on discoverwildscience.

As an example, this incredible time-lapse video shows the space shuttle Atlantis being lifted and then mated with its solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank for the very last shuttle flight ...

the rocket motors will travel from the Mojave Air and Space Port in the desert and arrive in Exposition Park on Wednesday for a gala reunion with the shuttle. The rocket motors are the major ...

The Space Shuttle launched to space strapped to a massive external fuel tank and a pair of solid rocket boosters, but it too contributed to the thrust it needed to escape Earth's gravity.

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

Get ready for the last big transport of space shuttle equipment to the California Science Center, a two-day spectacle that will traverse seven freeways from the Mojave Desert to South Los Angeles ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia ... after a failure in the shuttle’s right solid rocket booster.

The Space Shuttle’s iconic design (including the image displayed on the new $1 coins) frequently featured not just the shuttle itself, but its large external fuel tank and two solid rocket boosters.