Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The ...
It would take two years of investigations and modifications before a NASA space shuttle flew into ... Atlantis' journey capped off the shuttle era, following Discovery’s final flight in February ...
Kraft recalls laying bare the budget jeopardy faced by the shuttle. “We were totally incapable of meeting any sort of flight ...
On this date, Jan. 16, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on its ill-fated flight on the STS-107 mission. During liftoff, ...
Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...
These are the voyages of the space shuttle Enterprise, boldly renamed by former President Gerald Ford after a massive ...
Retired Canadian Space Agency astronaut Marc Garneau describes the time he picked up a spinning satellite in space known as ...
STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...