After Challenger shattered NASA's ambitions, the agency secretly developed Shuttle-C, a radical uncrewed heavy-lift system designed to build Mars ships in orbit and reassert American supremacy in ...
In this episode of the Space Minds podcast, host David Ariosto speaks with Eileen Collins, retired NASA astronaut, Air Force colonel and the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and to command a ...
A new study by NASA scientists explores the risks and challenges of human reproduction in space, especially for long missions to Mars.
In 1976, NASA and contractors studied a Personnel Launch System built from a shuttle-derived orbiter carrying a dense passenger module instead of a cargo bay. Seat layouts ranged from about 50 to as ...