Returning to Earth is one of the most dangerous phases of spaceflight, and the Space Shuttle was built to endure it like no other vehicle before. As it re-entered the atmosphere at Mach 25, the ...

"The space shuttle was designed to be a very heavy ... But when he's asked about anything more than the X-37's aerodynamics, he clams up. So does everyone else. "While some aspects of the ...

It withstood aerodynamic heating up to 400 degrees ... and notes taken by Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon—had survived space shuttle Columbia’s violent breakup on reentering the atmosphere ...

During the height of the space race, the Soviet Union proposed a flying sea platform capable of launching spacecraft directly ...

And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed the "Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act" to move Space Shuttle Discovery from ...

Even the Space Shuttle programme, which featured reusable orbiters, provided valuable insights into reentry aerodynamics. The Apollo, Challenger, Columbia Lessons Learned Programme (ACCLLP ...