It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off. The crew had been taken twenty stories up the launch tower in a lift, with all seven members dressed in their ...

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

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 ...

Some anomalies were reported, but Columbia and its crew came home safely. This was the first time NASA landed a spacecraft on wheels, and the success of that landing made the space shuttle ...

His latest is Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia ... satellites proved that Columbia and her two-man crew could land safely.

On January 28, 1986, space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after lift-off. On January 16, shortly after Columbia lifted off, a piece of insulating foam on its external fuel tank came off and ...

Then, due to the loss of Challenger ... shuttle Discovery. STS-31 was Discovery's 10th launch, and it was the 35th space shuttle mission overall. One day after reaching orbit (April 25), the STS ...

It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off. The crew had been taken twenty stories up the launch tower in a lift, with all seven members dressed in their ...

General Steven Whiting, commander of U.S. Space Command, discusses strategic objects for defense in space. Source (All Images) | CW The last time I walked the halls of the Space Symposium in Colorado ...

Space Shuttle Challenger — STS-51L Mission In January 1986, the crew of the Challenger space ... What's sad is that the Columbia was the first space shuttle in 1981 and ended up being one ...

After watching the Challenger tragedy unfold live on TV in 1986, I wrote President Reagan to tell him I was sorry about the space shuttle ... Christa and the other crew members would be to ...