NASA's space shuttle reentered orbit this fall after a 15-month retirement — and this time, it was bright blue. Outlasting the real winged spacecraft by more than a decade, the new space shuttle ...

Two generations of reusable space planes came face to face — or nose to tail, rather — over the weekend. On Sunday (May 7), the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane landed at NASA's Kennedy ...

Artist's rendering of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Plastic shielding could help protect astronauts from harmful radiation on long journeys through deep space, new observations from a ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. Operating in space requires that the electronic components in spacecraft must withstand a wide variety of challenges, ranging from hundreds of degrees ...