NASA’s long-promised space plane is finally on the cusp of leaving the runway behind and heading for orbit, a decade after the agency first backed the concept. The lifting-body vehicle known as Dream ...

Fire trucks responded to a plane at Ellington Airport on Tuesday. The aircraft appears to be a NASA plane used for high-altitude research. We are gathering information on what happened. HOUSTON - A ...

HOUSTON — A NASA research aircraft made a gear-up landing at Ellington Airport late Tuesday morning after experiencing a mechanical issue, according to NASA. Cellphone video shared with KHOU 11 shows ...

HOUSTON — NASA is releasing more information about a dramatic hard landing involving one of its research aircraft at Ellington Airport that sparked flames and smoke as it slid down the runway. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A NASA research plane malfunctioned and had to touch down in Texas without landing gear on Tuesday, sliding across the runway on ...

A NASA aircraft made a "belly" landing at Ellington Airport, southeast of Houston, late Tuesday morning after experiencing a mechanical issue, NASA said. Watch video of the incident in the player ...