After Challenger shattered NASA's ambitions, a secret proposal emerged to strip the space shuttle down to its bones and relaunch it as an unmanned heavy-lift machine. Shuttle-C promised to reshape ...
The Space Shuttle-derived Heavy Lift Vehicle is the merely the latest concept that uses the Shuttle external tank and solid rocket boosters to orbit robotic spacecraft or cargo with a side-mounted ...
A concept almost as old as the Space Shuttle itself is being considered as a replacement for NASA's Constellation programme return-to-the-Moon Ares rockets. Above: Artist's impression of a Space ...
Tom Couch, left, of Chantilly, Va., and Carlos Rodriguez of Dumfries, Va., wait outside the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 to see the space shuttle ...