NASA's Space Shuttle successfully reached orbit during ... Even NASA's ultra-expensive and expendable Space Launch System didn't erupt into a giant fireball during its maiden voyage in late ...

“Before the space shuttle, you had only a few guys figuring out when to launch, how to rendezvous, and when to reenter,” says NASA flight dynamics officer Phillip Burley, who works on shuttle ...

That is a substantial reduction compared to NASA's space shuttle, which put the launch cost at $54,500 per kilogram. The cost dynamics change when human missions come into the picture, as ...

It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off. The crew had been taken twenty stories up the launch tower in a lift, with all seven members dressed in their ...

just as shuttle astronauts do at liftoff. Technical wizardry accounts for other perceptual tricks, such as the sense of increased G-forces during launch and the feeling of weightlessness in space ...