The entire return operation from undocking to splashdown will take an estimated 22 to 23 hours. By the time the spacecraft hits Earth’s atmosphere, its velocity will slow down from 28,000 km/h to ...

The wind tunnel, which is large enough to fit a Boeing 737 plane, became operational in 1987 and functions as a test zone for parachutes, helicopters, planes and other vehicles, according to David ...

A new paper from Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki from the University of Tokyo looks at “the dynamics of an origami space plane during Earth atmospheric reentry” – in other words, what happens ...