Sierra Space continues to put its Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) habitat designs through the wringer. After ...

America explored space with rockets—but Project HARP tried a different approach: using a massive gun. This High Altitude ...

This one, though, takes the cake. It’s a gun designed to send very small payloads into space on a suborbital trajectory. The gun itself is an 8-inch bore, 45-foot long monster of an artillery piece.

steering a space shuttle or out-machoing Tom Cruise on the set of "Top Gun"? Scott Altman laughs when he answers the question. "Flying a space shuttle is a little more challenging than what we did ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Just in case things get ugly and the world erupts into a real Star Wars, yes, it is possible to shoot a gun in space. Here's everything that would happen to you ...

IT sounds like the plot of some sci-fi or action movie; astronauts heading into space with a special gun packed away among all their gear. Indeed, it has been claimed that Russian astronauts ...