When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. HOUSTON? To test a troublesome fuel tank on the space shuttle Discovery, NASAplans tofill the ...

Space Shuttle’s Reusable Solid Rocket Booster that was fired the full duration of 123.2 seconds Thursday, Nov. 1, at a Utah test facility. The approximate two-minute test duration is the same length ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — NASA’s Space Shuttle Program on Thursday successfully conducted a test firing of a space shuttle reusable solid rocket motor in Utah. The test firing of Flight Verification Motor 2 ...

For the first time in more than 3 1/2 years, a space shuttle main engine roared to life on Friday (Jan. 9) in support of NASA's new heavy-lift rocket. The space shuttle main engine (SSME), now renamed ...

When the world's largest solid rocket motor is ignited in Utah this week, it will not leave the ground, but it will fire with components that have a long spaceflight history. The static fire on ...