Only three countries in the world - United States, Russia, and China - have the ability to carry out docking of two ...
After an onboard explosion left their Moon-bound craft leaking oxygen into space, 200,000 miles from ... to comment on the ­Challenger and Columbia ­shuttle disasters he also remained stoic.
The shuttle even did a promotional tour of the area, flying into the Central Coast base on the back of a Boeing 747.
On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle program.
The simulation involved two full teams of flight controllers, the Sierra Space team in Colorado and the NASA team in Houston, ...
NASA astronaut Nick Hague will install patches to the agency’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) X-ray ...
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station, including Suni Williams, Nick Hague, Don Pettit, and Butch Wilmore, discussed life and work in microgravity with NASA leaders Bill Nelson and Pam ...
From 2005 until 2011, a Space Shuttle ... to inspect the Shuttle’s thermal protection system. This manoeuvre was developed by NASA engineers for safety purposes after the 2003 Columbia disaster ...
Kraft recalls laying bare the budget jeopardy faced by the shuttle. “We were totally incapable of meeting any sort of flight ...