CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Back on April 12, 1981, the space shuttle roared to life for the first time. Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying two astronauts – a moonwalker, John Young, ...
NASA today launches a series of events to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first space shuttle flight. On April 12, 1981, shuttle Columbia lifted off with Commander John Young and pilot Robert ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This First Shuttle Flight Achievement ...
Richard "Dick" Truly, who was one of the first astronauts to fly on the space shuttle and later led NASA as its eighth administrator, has died at the age of 86. Truly's death on Tuesday (Feb. 27) was ...
The space agency aims to send four astronauts around the moon early next year—and bring them safely home through intense heat ...
It will be NASA's first four-person shuttle crew since 1983. Ferguson and his short-handed crew know there's a chance - about 1-in-560 - that they could be stranded at the space station because of ...
CNN is airing "Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight," a four-part documentary about the 2003 tragedy. Forty-three years to the day after the space shuttle Columbia landed from its first mission, ...
Simulating a first-of-its-kind somersault that will expose the underside of the Space Shuttle for tile inspection, NASA has begun rehearsing its Return To Flight. The rehearsals were the first of 10 ...
Years behind schedule and more than a billion dollars over budget, Boeing's Starliner capsule is finally poised for its first piloted launch Monday, a critical test flight carrying two veteran ...
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After 10 years, NASA’s space plane is finally cleared for flight
NASA’s long-promised space plane is finally on the cusp of leaving the runway behind and heading for orbit, a decade after ...
If you want to know what it’s like to take a new spacecraft on its first test run in orbit, there are only three people in the Western world you can call. That fact should drive home the rarity of ...
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