Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...
It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which ...
On February 4, 1995, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery launched an itty bitty satellite called an Orbital Debris ...
In addition to the 1968 launch of Apollo 5, the first Canadian woman launched into space onboard shuttle Discovery in 1992.
NASA moved up the launch of Crew-10 to March 12 to return the Starliner astronauts home sooner. Crew-10 will now launch on Crew Dragon Endurance, which was originally assigned to the Axiom 4 mission.
The first shuttle mission of 1995, STS-63 included several historic firsts. As part of Phase 1 of the International Space ...
For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11.
February 14, 2025 \| Last updated: February 14, 2025. The Buran meaning “snowstorm” in Russian was the Soviet Union’s response ...
Among many highlights of 1988, George H.W. Bush defeated Michael Dukakis to become President of the United States, NASA ...
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This is the reality faced by the space shuttle nearly every ... but one that solved many problems for NASA, including the need to keep the shuttle’s launch weight as low as possible.
From realistic NASA-based shuttles to fun lunar playsets ... set let you recreate your very own scale model of the Space Shuttle Discovery, it also comes with a Hubble Telescope.