The VentureStar launch system was a direct response to the necessity of re-using spaceplanes that could put satellites into orbit. By replacing the Space Shuttle, NASA would save a lot of money, and ...

Later this week, Enterprise Florida, the state’s economic development agency, will send a package to Lockheed Martin executives in California. Inside will be a document listing Florida’s ...

On several occasions after the breakup of the Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1st, I found myself in conversations about the safety of the space program. Actually, my knowledge is limited to much ...

Gravely disappointed in NASA’s decision last March to cancel an experimental reusable rocket program on which $1.3 billion has already been spent, Lockheed Martin Corp. has vowed not to let its ...

When NASA scientists were first designing the space shuttle in the 1970s, many of their ideas weren’t possible, because the materials or technology just didn’t exist. So, while the next generation of ...

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS & Space Administration boss Daniel Goldin's office is cluttered with models: space shuttles, satellites, supersonic airplanes. But the one he picks up and tenderly sets on his ...

PALMDALE, Calif. – Occasionally, science pulls off the impossible. The atom was split. Animals were cloned. People have walked on the moon. Here in the desert north of Los Angeles, some of the world’s ...

In a hangar that in previous incarnations served as an assembly site for the B-1 bomber and a sound stage for the movie “Hard Rain,” the future of space travel is being defined. The future looks like ...