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 ...

STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

As Space.com reports ... resupply its three-year-old space station. And because China is looking to greatly expand its space station in the coming years, the Haolong shuttle could provide the ...

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 ...

The remnants of the only Russian shuttle to leave Earth were then cut ... Abandoned - Soviet Space Shuttles (Buran Program) Since the mid 1990s, the two craft have been sitting in storage on ...

there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the story behind them is fascinating. The push for printers in space came from the combined forces of NASA’s love for checklists and the need ...