Col. Terry J. Hart, currently a Lehigh University professor of mechanical engineering, on board the Space Shuttle Challenger STS-41C in April 1984. He's launched into orbit, flown high-speed ...

Space Shuttle Main Engines In 1995 ... mission control only about 15 percent of the time while in orbit. A glass cockpit, with 11 flat panel color displays, replaced 32 dials and gauges starting ...

Operating in orbit demands engineering solutions beyond what any airliner or rocket could offer—and the Space Shuttle delivered ... of 44 thrusters and dual cockpit control stations enabled ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz want to relocate space shuttle Discovery to Houston. It will be more challenging than when the shuttle program ended.

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and send it to Houston for display. NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery ...