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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Workers at the Kennedy Space Center filled the fuel tank of the space shuttle Atlantis on Wednesday in a key test ahead of its scheduled launch next month on the ...

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 ...

In the most realistic tests to date, foam fired at high velocity at the leading edge of space shuttle wing has caused significant cracks in a carbon composite panel. An earlier test on 28 May ...

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 ...