No Shortage of Dreams

Engineer Philip Bono described his conceptual ROMBUS launch vehicle as a crew-carrying system, though he did not describe the crewed spacecr...

Image credit: NASA. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) had its origins in talks aimed at developing a common U.S./Soviet docking system fo...

In this drawing by NASA engineer Caldwell Johnson, twin human-like Space Shuttle robot arms with human-like hands deploy from the Apollo Com...

Phobos, the inner moon of Mars, as imaged by the Viking 1 Orbiter. Viking images of Deimos, Mars's outer moon, can be found at the botto...

Big tank: External Tank-1, with the Space Shuttle Orbiter  Columbia and twin Solid Rocket Boosters attached, arrives at Launch Pad 39-A at ...