On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle ...

The shuttle even did a promotional tour of the area, flying into the Central Coast base on the back of a Boeing 747.

“I have decided today that the United States should ... into near space, by routinizing it,” Nixon said. It would be more than a decade before the first shuttle, Columbia, launched from ...

NASA has long been highly visible and is among the most celebrated programs in modern United States history. Some generations ...

Kraft recalls laying bare the budget jeopardy faced by the shuttle. “We were totally incapable of meeting any sort of flight ...

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US astronaut Leroy Chiao has been on three space missions and event spent months living in space, only to bizarrely see his ...

One of the first six U.S. women to train for a spaceflight, Ride helped to deploy two satellites on NASA's seventh space shuttle mission and conducted Earth observations on the 13th flight of the ...

Although the first trial launches of the Starship ended in magnificent explosions - echoing the early days of NASA’s experimental boosters - Starship’s fifth flight test played out almost ...

This year marked Boeing’s first crewed launch of the ... Nelson flew aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1986—on the flight right before the Challenger disaster—while a congressman.

A critical part of the training includes the use of microgravity simulators like parabolic flights and neutral buoyancy pools, and high-fidelity simulators that replicate conditions for practising ...