Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. The Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) would need to be cut into ...

When the Space Shuttle lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in 1981, it was the first reusable spacecraft. The massive orange external fuel tank was the major component designed to be destroyed on ...

The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources reported Monday that water intrusion has occurred through different parts of the 75-foot passenger vessel that ran aground near Kewalo Basin ...

Rehoming NASA’s fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets of Los Angeles atop a mechanical transporter for three days and nights to ...

Jean Wright's work as a seamstress wasn't typical: this "Sew Sister" had a mission of keeping NASA's Space Shuttle and its astronauts safe. She sewed with materials that could withstand up to 3,200 ...

On Nov. 16, 2009, space shuttle Atlantis began its 31 st trip into space, on the third Utilization and Logistics Flight (ULF3) mission to the International Space Station, the 31 st shuttle flight to ...

NASA's first astronaut from West Virginia later found his second home at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, where he spent two decades greeting tens of thousands of visitors as one of the ...

This year's U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony was also a reunion of sorts, as the two honorees took to the stage under the spacecraft on which they once crossed paths. NASA's Kennedy ...

Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA’s history, the Columbia shuttle disaster reshaped the US space agency’s approach to innovation, forever altering how it balanced risk with the call to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Back on April 12, 1981, the space shuttle roared to life for the first time. Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying two astronauts – a moonwalker, John Young, ...

‘A collapsing system’: Experts and civil society say SAPS failures are fuelling fear, corruption and vigilante justice Broos reveals what Salah said to him after the match Scientists reveal hitler's ...