The milestones, heartbreaks, and discoveries that shaped NASA's 30-year shuttle program. NASA's storied space shuttle program experienced extraordinary triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies during ...
Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space shuttle program's greatest tragedy. Congress authorized NASA to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was lost ...
R: The Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise inside of Marshall Space Flight Center's Dynamic Test Stand for Mated Vertical Ground Vibration tests (MVGVT). Images: NASA These are the voyages of the space ...
With 39th President Jimmy Carter passing away at the age of 100, we are revisiting this story of how he unexpectedly saved the space shuttle. We’d been chatting for the better part of two hours ...
From 2005 until 2011, a Space Shuttle would have to perform a backflip, called the R-bar Pitch Manoeuvre or Rendezvous Pitch Manoeuvre (RPM), to allow the crew aboard the International Space ...
especially the International Space Station, the shuttle or capsule they travel in needs to perform a docking manoeuvre. Only after the docking procedure is complete, and the two objects are ...
If you're remembering back to NASA's legacy Space Shuttle, which launched from 1981 to 2011, that was a smaller rocket. It's dwarfed by these newcomers. According to NASA, it stood at only 184 ...
But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star ... Jan. 13, 2025 — Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a ...
By Kenneth Chang The agency launched an investigation into the “space vehicle mishap” on Thursday night that forced commercial flights to divert and caused debris to rain toward Caribbean islands.
The “Our Community, Our Shuttle” program (Bayview Shuttle) is a three-year grant-funded program to bring community shuttle service, workforce development, transportation resources, and community ...
The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are thrilled at what we might learn ...