HYTHIRM Principal Investigator: Tom Horvath: “The Hypersonic Thermodynamic InfraRed Measurements (HYTHIRM) team, based at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., was again successful in ...

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Our trip to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, was one of the most exciting trips we've taken for Spotlight USA thus far. But we've saved the best for the last folks. There's one ...

The return to Earth is a hazardous facet of spaceflight, but NASA has never suffered a reentry failure in its 42-year-history of manned missions -- until Saturday’s loss of the shuttle orbiter ...

WASHINGTON -- Even if Columbia's astronauts had discarded every nonessential piece of equipment and made other changes in the re-entry plan, the shuttle would still have broken up on descent, ...

When Discovery rockets into space this year on NASA's first shuttle flight in more than two years, the astronauts aboard will carry a bevy of tools and techniques to ensure their spacecraft is safe.

Repairing the space shuttle heat shield in orbit may be simpler than NASA once thought, requiring one of the most basic of home repair items — a foam paint brush. NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe said ...

Shuttle Columbia was lost by ground controllers at 9am EST after a successful 16-day scientific research mission. TV stations in Dallas filmed the re-entry and saw what appeared to be the craft ...

When the space shuttle Columbia began its reentry into the Earth's atmosphere yesterday morning, it was traveling at a speed greater than 16,000 miles per hour and had little in common with an ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida (AP) - Space shuttle “Columbia” is missing. NASA has declared an emergency after it lost contact with Columbia. Columbia was scheduled to land in Florida at 9:16 a.m.

HOUSTON — The four astronauts onboard shuttle Atlantis are planning to depart the International Space Station to wrap up the final space shuttle flight ever. Atlantis launched July 8 on the 135th and ...

Space shuttle Columbia breaks into pieces over Texas, killing all seven crew members aboard. President Bush tells the nation the work of the space program will go on. NASA engineers begin the grim ...