NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The familiar double boom signifying the return of a space shuttle from space thrilled people for more than 30 years. At Edwards Air Force Base and Dryden, the noise was commonplace during the early ...

The space shuttle orbiter was the first spacecraft designed with the aerodynamic characteristics and in-atmosphere handling qualities of a conventional airplane.

Astronaut Bob Crippen spoke to Dryden employees April 15, 2011, about his mission as the pilot of the first space shuttle mission, which had concluded at Dryden 30 years earlier. Crippen and shuttle ...

Challenger was built to serve as a structural test article for the shuttle program. A lighter-weight orbiter was NASA's goal during the years in which the orbiter fleet was being built, but a test ...

Dryden employees gained insight into Space Shuttle Discovery's final mission when its commander and a mission specialist visited April 26.

Space shuttle Atlantis completed its last mission in July, but the mission continued on for its crew, who traveled the nation to thank people for their support of the space program and recap some of ...

Space shuttle Endeavour will make one last flight – to its home in California. Its flight won’t be powered by solid rocket boosters for this journey, but as a passenger atop the NASA 747 Shuttle ...