HYTHIRM Principal Investigator: Tom Horvath: “The Hypersonic Thermodynamic InfraRed Measurements (HYTHIRM) team, based at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., was again successful in ...

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HYTHIRM Principal Investigator: Tom Horvath: “The Hypersonic Thermodynamic InfraRed Measurements (HYTHIRM) team, based at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., was again successful in ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL--Awakened by the rousing strains of Kate Smith's "God Bless America," the Atlantis astronauts are rigging the shuttle for it's final re-entry to close out three decades of ...

Repairing the space shuttle heat shield in orbit may be simpler than NASA once thought, requiring one of the most basic of home repair items — a foam paint brush. NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe said ...

Shuttle Columbia was lost by ground controllers at 9am EST after a successful 16-day scientific research mission. TV stations in Dallas filmed the re-entry and saw what appeared to be the craft ...

Our trip to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, was one of the most exciting trips we've taken for Spotlight USA thus far. But we've saved the best for the last folks. There's one ...

Investigators of the Columbia accident have quietly tackled the sensitive question of how close the shuttle's seven astronauts came to surviving the fiery re-entry and whether NASA might have done ...

No changes in the way the space shuttle Columbia returned to Earth would have saved it, an internal NASA report concludes. Even dumping nearly 16 tons of non-essential items, including science ...

Q: Which is more fun, the ascent into orbit or the reentry from space to landing? (Gordon Krauter, Livermore, California) My reentry experiences were unquestionably more visually exciting than launch, ...

NASA today discovered that a forward thruster that controls the space shuttle Endeavour‘s speed and altitude is not working properly. The finding comes just a day before the shuttle is due to land at ...