A NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter re-enters the Earth's atmosphere at about 75 miles above sea level and speeds close to 17,500 ...

Spacecraft reentry is one of those events in spaceflights which should scare astronauts the most. Imagine a massive metallic ...

The Buran spacecraft was a space shuttle developed by the Soviet Union ... 15, 1988, and re-entered the atmosphere after two orbits, according to NASA. The spacecraft launched aboard a Russian ...

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Haolong will be launched by China's commercial carrier rockets to dock with the country's Tiangong space station. After completing its tasks, the shuttle will return to the Earth's atmosphere and ...

STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia ... as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere on its return journey, killing seven more crew members. The shuttle would continue flying until ...