7 commercial airports with runways so long they were originally built to handle space shuttles

Many forget that airports are not always designed with airliners in mind. Many are actually designed with craft that fly much ...

Houston's Created Its Own Problem: The Unnecessary Fight To Snatch Up The Discovery Space Shuttle Continues

But the story has become so much more than just moving a space shuttle from Virginia to Texas. Unfortunately embroiled in ...
Ars Technica

With Starship, SpaceX encounters an obstacle that haunted NASA’s space shuttles

STARBASE, Texas—For the third day in a row, SpaceX engineers prepared to send the company’s massive Starship rocket into space Tuesday after a technical problem and bad weather grounded the test ...
Houston Public Media

NASA begins contracting process to potentially relocate Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston

Space Shuttle Discovery on display at the Smithsonian. NASA is beginning the process of potentially relocating Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian in Virginia to Houston. The federal space ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Inside NASA's space shuttle Challenger disaster that could have been stopped 40 years ago

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

space shuttle

If you've already built your Space Shuttle in CityVille, you can now launch the shuttle into outer space, as a new series of ...
BGR

Why NASA's Space Shuttle Hitched Rides On Top Of A Boeing 747

Now retired, the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) were a pair of planes designed to transport orbiters from their landing sites back to Kennedy Space Center throughout the Space Shuttle Program, one of ...

Texas and the Smithsonian are locked in a custody battle over a space shuttle

Two senators earmarked $85 million for the move to Houston—but safely shipping an 86-ton shuttle orbiter cross-country could ...