SEE ALSO: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Video: The Final Flight According to a report by Matt Novak at Gizmodo, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) -- the secretive intelligence organization ...

"The space shuttle was designed to be a very heavy ... Though hitched to the underside of a bomber, rather than perched atop an expendable booster, the mysterious Shenlong has a blunt nose and ...

Meanwhile, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston ... 75 degree per second, to scan the shuttle's underside for damaged tiles and take pictures of specific areas, like the seals over the main ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and send it to Houston for display. NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery ...

Cape Canaveral, Fla.? Just before it disintegrated, space shuttle Columbia experienced an abnormal rise in temperature and wind resistance that forced the craft’s automatic pilot to make rapid ...

The American space shuttle is commonly regarded as the most ... tiny carbon heat-shielding tiles were glued to the underside of the Buran. In all, 38,000 tiles were used to coat the Buran ...

Then, due to the loss of Challenger in January 1986 and the ensuing pause of the space shuttle program, Hubble would wait yet another five years before reaching orbit. Hubble was built with a ...