The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly built its own space shuttle to rival America’s NASA program. Called Buran, it looked like the Space Shuttle but hid radical differences. In this ...

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to "expedite the development" of the successor to the space shuttle, which ended its final mission on July 21, 2011. First, some background ...