HYTHIRM Principal Investigator: Tom Horvath: “The Hypersonic Thermodynamic InfraRed Measurements (HYTHIRM) team, based at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., was again successful in ...

HAMPTON, Va. – The last mission of the space shuttle Endeavour will feature a new spacecraft docking technology, developed in part by NASA’s Langley Research Center. Endeavour’s STS-134 mission is set ...

HYTHIRM Principal Investigator: Tom Horvath: “The Hypersonic Thermodynamic InfraRed Measurements (HYTHIRM) team, based at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., was again successful in ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL--Awakened by the rousing strains of Kate Smith's "God Bless America," the Atlantis astronauts are rigging the shuttle for it's final re-entry to close out three decades of ...

The Space Shuttle's return to Earth was one of the most dangerous parts of its mission. With temperatures exceeding 1650°C and plasma blocking all communications for 12 minutes, the orbiter relied on ...

The space shuttle Columbia, carrying a crew of seven, is thought to have broken apart 15 minutes before it was scheduled to touch down in Florida on Saturday. At 1400GMT television pictures show the ...

No changes in the way the space shuttle Columbia returned to Earth would have saved it, an internal NASA report concludes. Even dumping nearly 16 tons of non-essential items, including science ...

Eagle-eyed skywatchers who just happen to be in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in 2021 might notice a streak of light dash across their field of view, the result of a cargo module burning up in Earth ...

Shuttle Columbia was lost by ground controllers at 9am EST after a successful 16-day scientific research mission. TV stations in Dallas filmed the re-entry and saw what appeared to be the craft ...

When the space shuttle Columbia began its reentry into the Earth's atmosphere yesterday morning, it was traveling at a speed greater than 16,000 miles per hour and had little in common with an ...

Our trip to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, was one of the most exciting trips we've taken for Spotlight USA thus far. But we've saved the best for the last folks. There's one ...