At 15,000 feet (4,572 m) in length, the Shuttle Landing Facility was so long that it'd tower over everything but the most prominent mountain ranges in the world if stacked into the sky. Most normal ...

You hear about highly addictive video game applications such as Angry Bird and Words With Friends for your iPad and smart phone, but have you ever heard of F-SIM's Space Shuttle landing simulator?

The Space Shuttle Atlantis, led by Commander Brent Jett, is scheduled to land at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on Thursday, Sept. 21, completing space shuttle mission STS-115. Touchdown is ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – NASA Ames Research Center will show the live televised broadcast of the landing of STS-117 space shuttle Atlantis on Thursday, June 21. The space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled ...

All tires are built more or less the same, right? They're just hunks of rubber formed into the shape of a circle and slapped on a set of wheels, or so you would think. But as petrolheads all know, the ...

(AP) -- Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts closed out the last major construction mission at the International Space Station with a smooth landing in darkness that struck many as ...

Update 8:15 a.m. PDT: Discovery has landed. At precisely 11:15 and 19 seconds a.m. EDT Saturday, the space shuttle completed its 5.7 million mile journey by touching down here. Stay tuned for a story ...

Sierra Nevada Corp. has been in line to become the third commercial partner to send supplies to the International Space Station with its mini-shuttle-looking Dream Chaser for three years. On Tuesday, ...

NASA has revised its emergency landing plans for the space shuttle to protect people on the ground when flights resume later in 2005. Until now, the US space agency had never assessed the threat posed ...

HOUSTON -- The threat of Hurricane Dean to NASA's flight operations for the space shuttle Endeavour's landing this week is diminishing, mission managers said Sunday. NASA decided to drop one backup ...

The space shuttle Endeavour closes out a 16-day space station construction mission with a picture-perfect landing at the Kennedy Space Center. Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program ...