The internet at large has been ablaze recently with stories about a radio-controlled scale model of a World War II German King Tiger tank whose job was to drill holes in over-pressurized Space ...

American space agency NASA announced it ended stripping the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO), parts heading to museums.

Most of us only think of Boeing and Airbus when it comes to passenger jet manfacturers. However, several other companies ...

NASA had flown KAO since 1974, when it took over for the agency’s first flying telescope, the Galileo Observatory: a modified Convair 990. The end of the SOFIA program appears to mean the end of ...

Normally, those two things don’t overlap at all, but they did for a moment under NASA’s Space Shuttle program. That’s how we got the CR-990 Tire Assault Vehicle, which was built to blow up ...

It has been more than 286 days since NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the International Space Station. Wilmore and Williams had planned stay from June to July ...

The company also wanted a slice of the civilian market, so it introduced the Convair 880 and slightly longer 990 Coronado a year apart. However, these jets arrived after Boeing and Douglas started ...