Exactly 54 years ago today on Jan. 4, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a bill authorizing $5.5 million to develop a ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

In the 1990s, NASA and Lockheed Skunk Works chased a fully reusable space shuttle replacement with the X-33 and VentureStar, promising radically cheaper access to orbit. This deep dive follows the ...

The Space Race began in the 1950s when, in 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first manmade satellite, Sputnik 1, to orbit the Earth, during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The U.S. followed ...