The 17th launch of the space shuttle took place 40 years ago today, kicking off the Spacelab 3 mission (STS-51B). [...] ...

“That was the cool and new thing about Hubble when it was first put up in space -- that ... in different capacities on all five of the Space Shuttle Hubble Space Telescope service missions.

A nationwide contest of sorts called the Teacher In Space Project was held by NASA and received more than 11,000 applications. New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe was selected to travel on the ...

David Klaus, professor at the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, was a graduate student at CU Boulder when BioServe’s first launch took off. From 1985 to 1990, he worked ...

Hubble launched on April 24, 1990, stowed inside the cargo bay of space shuttle Discovery. STS-31 was Discovery's 10th launch ... But the first images beamed back to Earth from Hubble — NASA's ...

His latest is Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space ... concerns from engineers at the launch site. The space shuttle was the most remarkable flying ...

However, if you examine the history of the space agency, it becomes clear that the reality is more complicated. SEE ALSO: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Video ... and NASA's first crop of ...

The sensor-equipped supercar shattered the autonomous-driving speed record by reaching an eye-watering 197.7 mph at the Space Florida-managed Launch ... NASA's first space shuttle landing occurred ...

The story of Laika, the first dog in space ... In January 1986, the crew of the Challenger space shuttle took off from the launch pad on their STS-51L mission to deploy a satellite and study ...