With a wingspan of 15 feet and a length of 27.5 feet, the X-37 looks like a tiny space shuttle. It has a blunt (though windowless) nose, and one rocket engine bell instead of the shuttle's three.

The Space Shuttle Discovery has been a prolific reminder of our nation’s space exploration mission at the National Air & ...

Space Shuttle Main Engines In 1995 ... on wing leading edges and added reinforced carbon-carbon blankets under the nose. The shuttle has deployed six Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, beginning ...

Returning to Earth is one of the most dangerous phases of spaceflight, and the Space Shuttle was built to endure ... Every detail, from the nose shape to the tile adhesives, was engineered to ...