Russia's space program has taken a drubbing in recent years, its reputation battered by corruption scandals, shrinking ...

Take a deep dive into the story of the Buran, the Soviet Union’s strikingly familiar-looking space shuttle. Developed during the height of the Cold War, this ambitious program mirrored NASA’s Space ...

The An-225 was just the beginning. The engineers had big plans for the aircraft, and by big, we mean huge. Meet the An-325 and its bigger brother, the Antonov AKS. They were templates for a new soviet ...

Boeing and NASA have agreed to keep astronauts off the company's next Starliner flight. Instead, Boeing will perform a trial run with cargo to the International Space Station to prove the capsule's ...

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...

Three Chinese astronauts are stuck in space after their shuttle was used to cart another group back to Earth, leaving them in the dust. Astronauts Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang, all with the ...

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When NASA needed a taxi service for its roughly 100-ton space shuttles, it couldn't exactly call an Uber. The agency needed a plane powerful enough for the job. It dug around, and the two candidates ...

Texas lawmakers have demanded the Discovery shuttle be moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but daunting technical challenges remain—and Virginia officials have dug in against the move. The ...

The tug-of-war over space shuttle Discovery is becoming more volatile. Discovery — the crown jewel of the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia — is the subject of a ...

The Boeing 747 has taken many forms in its decades of service. First introduced in 1970, the Queen of the Skies has flown for airlines all over the world. It has also had a handful of side gigs over ...

Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...