After Challenger shattered NASA's ambitions, the agency secretly developed Shuttle-C, a radical uncrewed heavy-lift system designed to build Mars ships in orbit and reassert American supremacy in ...

What worries me about retiring the space shuttle is that it is the only vehicle capable of maintaining the International Space Station (ISS). We have many vehicles capable of resupplying the station, ...

In 1972, Apollo 17 carried the last batch of astronauts to the lunar surface. But during that same year, NASA was already beginning the design and develop their next generation of crew-carrying craft.

Click to open image viewer. This poster was created by Martin Marietta Corporation, an American company that specializes in chemicals, aerospace, and electronics, for the Space Shuttle program. Martin ...