Tag: SHUTTLE

With the final launch dates set for space shuttles Discovery and Endeavour, NASA's next job will be finding homes for these hulking, retired spacecrafts, and for the Atlantis and Enterprise, as well. According to The Wall Street Journal, about 21 institutions have asked NASA for the right to store and showcase one of the four remaining U.S. space shuttles. However, few of them can likely afford ...

A few weeks ago, we told you about the Air Force's mysterious plans to launch the robotic, unmanned X37B shuttle into orbit. Now, less than a month later, the launch is going forward as planned, but the Force is still being strangely silent on details. After nearly a decade of arduous and expensive development, the X37B is slated to take off from Cape Canaveral on April 19, but, as FOXNews ...

After its long and often troubled history, the U.S. shuttle program seemed to be on life support. But, it may be getting the shot in the arm that it has so sorely needed, thanks to a new robotic aircraft called the X37B. At just 29-feet-long and weighing in at 11,000 pounds, the X37B has been in the works for some time, and was originally conceived, according to The Register, as a "lifeboat" ...