Boeing executive Mark Nappi had been the face of the company's Starliner program during its beleaguered Crew Flight Test to ...
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.
much of it over Hemphill, Texas. The disaster was attributed to a a piece of foam that fell from the external rocket tank during launch, which opened a hole in a shuttle wing that caused the craft ...
The Cupola continues to offer the best views in the universe It has been 15 years since the ultimate selfie booth, the Cupola ...
I was 20 years old and a member of the 7th Cavalry near the DMZ in South Korea when the first Space Shuttle was launched in 1981. The launch took place, not intentionally, on the 20th anniversary ...
Approximately a minute, half after launch from ... the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’”The explosion led to the grounding of the Space Shuttle fleet for nearly three ...
But hold on, There was an essential component of the SPS program that we skipped over - that the star raker for all its glory was actually not designed to carry passengers. that these gigantic SPSs in ...