he’s aiming for space exploration with a minivan turned into a space shuttle. The guy who comes up with all these crazy ideas is Adam Parkins, a retired respiratory therapist who now gives ...

Crewmembers on Challenger then reached out with the shuttle's Canadarm robotic arm and plucked the satellite out of empty space and into the payload bay. Nelson and crewmate James "Ox" Van Hoften ...

How NASA and Lockheed Martin are building a successor to the Space Shuttle–using off-the-shelf technology and plain old pragmatism. The essential technology America’s space-shuttle astronauts ...

SEATTLE — It's not every day you get to stand inside the payload bay of a space shuttle ... into an area no bigger than the interior of a minivan are a wall of storage lockers, a food galley ...

Barring weather delays, the space shuttle Endeavour will undergo its final, historic lift starting Monday night, a maneuver no other retired orbiter has undergone. Plans for the coming move ...

28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart shortly ... his team drove back out to Pad 39B in their white government van. The countdown clocks inside the Launch Control Center were holding ...

Space Shuttle missions fulfilled various tasks in ... Accordingly, the two payload specialists—Lodewijk van den Berg, a Dutch-born American chemical engineer, and Taylor Gun-Jin Wang, a Chinese ...

At slower than a walking pace, the prototype that helped launch America’s space shuttle program paraded down Downey streets Thursday morning on its way to a temporary housing location in ...

The Endeavour is now being housed at the California Science Center near the campus of USC, just south of downtown Los Angeles. The shuttle will eventually be displayed in its upright takeoff ...