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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For the first time since 2003, some Wyoming residents may be able to see the space shuttle as it makes its descent to Earth. After nearly a two-week mission, the space shuttle Discovery may be visible ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA -- The view from inside a space shuttle hurtling toward Earth is hellish. Former astronauts describe shuttle re-entry as a ride inside a fireball, with the atmosphere burning around them, ...

SPACE CENTER, Houston Discovery's astronauts lowered a huge container filled with a 2½-year backlog of space station trash and old broken equipment into the shuttle Friday for return to Earth next ...

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 ...

When the space shuttle Columbia began its reentry into the Earth's atmosphere yesterday morning, it was traveling at a speed greater than 16,000 miles per hour and had little in common with an ...