On February 1st, 2003 at eighteen seconds past 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, the Space ... one of the first tasks scheduled for every Shuttle crew to fly after the loss of Columbia was to ...
Just before it disintegrated, space shuttle Columbia experienced an abnormal rise in temperature and wind resistance that forced the craft’s automatic pilot to make rapid changes to its flight ...
On Saturday, May 30, Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken became the first ... the final flight of the Space Shuttle program, and the last crewed launch to orbit from the United States until Demo ...
Shuttle Columbia, with NASA’s first female spaceflight ... Day 1 deploy as the plan, that gave us a shorter launch window as I recall it,” STS-93 Lead Flight Director Bryan Austin explained.
The Space Shuttle Columbia, the first of its kind ... but James Buchanan tells us problems plagued the second mission … James Buchanan: "It was around 1:18 Pacific time Saturday, November ...
On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle ...
the world’s first reusable spacecraft – and the most complex spacecraft ever built – was launched into orbit by the US. STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s ...
Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia launched the Chandra X-ray observatory and nearly ended in catastrophe. As the then-ascent flight director John Shannon observed: "Yikes. We don't ...