NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

The space shuttle carries five onboard computers for redundancy, with one always designated as a backup. The four other computers work together to make up the orbiter's primary computer systems ...

The flight computer aboard the space shuttle has less than one percent of the power of an Xbox 360 game console. Astronauts load programs directing the phases of a mission - liftoff, orbit ...

The loss vital computers governing Russian systems aboard the International Space Station (ISS) may lengthen the Atlantis shuttle flight.

In this handout from NASA, the Hubble Space Telescope is grappled to Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-125 by the shuttle's Canadian-built remote manipulator system May 13, 2009 in Space.

A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill," a major economic and policy package ...

STS-43 astronaut James Adamnson uses a Mac Portable computer on Space Shuttle Atlantis in August 1991. The First Laptop in Space. Astronauts have been using external computing and calculating ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart shortly after it lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, killing all aboard. Among the seven crew members was Christa ...

The 122-foot-long-by-35-foot-tall space shuttle mockup, named the “Inspiration,” was transported via big rig in multiple parts 0.3 miles along Bellflower Boulevard from a city maintenance yard ...

Back on April 12, 1981, the space shuttle roared to life for the first time. Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying two astronauts – a moonwalker, John Young, and a rookie, Bob ...

The space shuttle carries five onboard computers for redundancy, with one always designated as a backup. The four other computers work together to make up the orbiter's primary computer systems ...