The Buran meaning “snowstorm” in Russian was the Soviet Union’s response to NASA's space shuttle program. Outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin pushes constitutional amendment for Supreme Court term ...

Only three countries in the world - United States, Russia, and China - have the ability to carry out docking of two ...

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is on the cusp of a significant achievement with its SpaDeX mission, scheduled ...

when the United States Air Force decided it wanted a robotic space shuttle that could stay in space for up to 270 days. Like the original NASA space shuttles built by Rockwell International and the ...

However, airlines started using the upper deck for premium passenger seating and Boeing responded by offering a 10-window upper deck option. One of the Space Shuttle Carriers has four upper deck ...

With 39th President Jimmy Carter passing away at the age of 100, we are revisiting this story of how he unexpectedly saved the space shuttle. We’d been chatting for the better part of two hours ...

Russian space agency Roscosmos named their space shuttle Buran. Besides the space docking manoeuvre, there is another key mission objective. ISRO plans to experiment with microgravity during the ...

From 2005 until 2011, a Space Shuttle would have to perform a backflip, called the R-bar Pitch Manoeuvre or Rendezvous Pitch Manoeuvre (RPM), to allow the crew aboard the International Space ...

Not only does this epic set let you recreate your very own scale model of the Space Shuttle Discovery, it also comes with a Hubble Telescope. Price: $199.99 / £169.99 Model number: 10283 Number ...

Discovery Liftoff U.S. space shuttle Discovery blasts off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading for the International Space Station. The world's first reusable spacecraft, the space ...