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

NASA hopes to put astronauts on the moon in just two years, but a critical spacecraft required for the mission keeps exploding or disintegrating: SpaceX’s Starship, the largest rocket ever built.

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

Another member of the safety panel, Mark Sirangelo, said NASA should formally declare mishaps and close calls as soon as possible. “It allows for the investigative team to be starting to be formed a ...

A NASA safety watchdog has accused the agency of soft-pedaling serious problems on Boeing’s Starliner capsule, arguing that ...

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.

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