Space Shuttle’s Reusable Solid Rocket Booster that was fired the full duration of 123.2 seconds Thursday, Nov. 1, at a Utah test facility. The approximate two-minute test duration is the same length ...

NASA used the Convair CV-990 Coronado to test space shuttle landing gear, tires, and braking systems, improving safety and ...

SAN ANTONIO -- A chunk of foam fired at high speed cracked a space shuttle wing panel Friday, offering what investigators said was the most powerful evidence yet to support the theory that a piece of ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle Program conducted the final test firing of a reusable solid rocket motor Feb. 25 in Promontory, Utah. The flight support motor, or FSM-17, burned for approximately 123 seconds – ...

PROMONTORY, Utah – NASA’s Space Shuttle Program successfully fired a reusable solid rocket motor Thursday, May 24, at a Utah test facility. The two-minute test provided important information for ...

The Constellation program’s Orion project office is defining a formal Relative Navigation Sensor’s Development Test (RNSDT) to operate Orion navigation sensors and software on a shuttle flight in 2009 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Workers at the Kennedy Space Center filled the fuel tank of the space shuttle Atlantis on Wednesday in a key test ahead of its scheduled launch next month on the ...

The skyline of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville is about to change in a way that closes a defining chapter of the Space Age. The towering structures that once shook under the power of ...

Joe Engle’s Remarkable Career Bridged Gap Between Air and Space, Broke Records. Astronaut, X-15 test pilot and space shuttle pilot Joe Engle has died at home in Houston, Texas. He was 91. Engle passed ...