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 ...

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 ...

While the upcoming launch of the space shuttle Discovery will mark the return to flight of NASA’s space shuttle fleet, it is only the beginning of the great care being taken to assure a successful ...

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 ...

Visitors to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton can practice landing a space shuttle inside one of the new shuttle landing simulators. (National Museum of the U.S. Air Force) With the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...