When a spacecraft comes home without people on board, it is not a cinematic failure but a carefully choreographed engineering choice. From military spaceplanes to commercial capsules, uncrewed returns ...

The US Space Shuttle was the world’s first reusable spacecraft. It was first conceived during the years of the Apollo lunar program and was intended to service space stations, lower the costs of space ...

WASHINGTON (voa) – The U.S. Space Shuttle Columbia returns to Earth Tuesday, after an 11-day mission to renovate the Hubble Space Telescope. Columbia is set to make a pre-dawn landing at Florida’s ...

NASA — A drop in storm intensity has caused the U.S. space agency NASA to return the shuttle Atlantis back to the launch pad after it was being pulled toward its hangar for shelter. The reversal means ...