On January 8, 2024, the Peregrine Mission One lunar lander soared into the sky atop United Launch Alliance’s brand-new Vulcan Centaur rocket. This event marked the highly anticipated debut flight of ...

Shannon Airport has had many eye-catching visitors over the years. But the prospect of a NASA space shuttle hurtling towards ...

Ireland was required to agree to plan under 1960s space treaties - but felt crash landing was only a remote possibility ...

SHANNON AIRPORT WAS proposed as a potential “emergency landing” site for the NASA Space Shuttle after a change in the launch plans for the now-defunct spacecraft some thirty years ago.

A main engine computer upgrade developed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center will fly on Space Shuttle Atlantis during the STS-117 mission, targeted for launch June 8. The upgrade is part of NASA's ...

At the time, NASA was preparing to launch the space shuttle, Atlantis, in June 1995 on a mission to dock with the Russian Mir ...

Newly released files in the State Papers revealed the Clare airport was proposed by US officials as one of a series of emergency landing sites should the Space Shuttle experience ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 engines, recently passed a critical milestone that put the integrated system to ...