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On April 29, 1985, the European Space Agency's Spacelab launched on the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51B. This was ...
Rehoming NASA's fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets ...
The parts for a 1972 full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city block closer to being reassembled and restored for display. The City of Downey, California began relocating "Inspiration." ...
Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...
And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...
If Congress decides to grant Houston a space shuttle, Space Center CEO William Harris says the city is far more ready than it was a decade ago.
The Blue Origin New Shepard space program was founded by Jeff Bezos, and allowed for King and a group of influential women to ...
SEE ALSO: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Video: The Final Flight According to a report by Matt Novak at Gizmodo, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) -- the secretive intelligence organization ...
Bruce McCandless II. Photo: NASA NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II stepped away from the Space Shuttle Challenger on Feb. 7, 1984, using a jet-powered backpack called the Manned Manoeuvring Unit ...
Hubble maintenance and legacy Throughout her career, de Groh was fortunate enough to have worked in different capacities on all five of the Space Shuttle Hubble Space Telescope service missions.
A ceremony with astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, followed where Discovery was displayed nose-to-nose with Space Shuttle Enterprise. Among the attendees were Mike ...