Space Shuttle’s Reusable Solid Rocket Booster that was fired the full duration of 123.2 seconds Thursday, Nov. 1, at a Utah test facility. The approximate two-minute test duration is the same length ...

NASA used the Convair CV-990 Coronado to test space shuttle landing gear, tires, and braking systems, improving safety and ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle Program conducted the final test firing of a reusable solid rocket motor Feb. 25 in Promontory, Utah. The flight support motor, or FSM-17, burned for approximately 123 seconds – ...

An insulation design change that will further enhance the safety of the Space Shuttle’s Solid Rocket Motor nozzle is set for its final certification test on a static firing of a full-scale flight ...

SAN ANTONIO -- A chunk of foam fired at high speed cracked a space shuttle wing panel Friday, offering what investigators said was the most powerful evidence yet to support the theory that a piece of ...

The skyline of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville is about to change in a way that closes a defining chapter of the Space Age. The towering structures that once shook under the power of ...

Joe Engle’s Remarkable Career Bridged Gap Between Air and Space, Broke Records. Astronaut, X-15 test pilot and space shuttle pilot Joe Engle has died at home in Houston, Texas. He was 91. Engle passed ...