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Rehoming NASA's fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets ...
On April 29, 1985, the European Space Agency's Spacelab launched on the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51B. This was ...
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.
Mercury astronaut John Glenn was 77 when he returned to orbit on a short shuttle flight in 1998. But he’d been gone from NASA ...
And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...
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 ...
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 ...
Since its inception in 1966, Star Trek has inspired astronauts, scientists, engineers, and space enthusiasts who believed in Gene Roddenberry’s vision of space exploration.
Dr Dinesh C. Sharma uses two broad themes in his book—the ISRO story and Indians in space, with special focus on astronauts ...
We are joined this week by Dr. John Grunsfeld, who flew five times on the space shuttle and spent over 50 hours on Hubble servicing missions to keep those incredible images coming. Join us for a ...