The new podcast 16 Sunsets opens with archive audio from Nasa’s mission control in 1981, in the build-up to the first flight ...
In 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia breaks apart in the skies above America. Astronauts' families and NASA staff share personal ...
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 ...
This claim was, in fact, true. McCandless was, indeed, the first astronaut to perform an untethered spacewalk on Feb. 7, 1984 ...
Cape Canaveral, Fla.? 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 ...
On Nov. 11, 1921, U.S. President Warren Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia ...
Today in 1995 (October 20), after a series of delays, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on mission STS-73 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. [...] ...
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Space Shuttle reborn: China to resurrect uncrewed rival of NASA’s discontinued craftChina announces the development of Haolong, a reusable uncrewed space shuttle, designed for cargo transport to Tiangong ...
WHITE SANDS, N.M. (KRQE) – 78 years ago, the world got its first look at Earth from space and New Mexico played a key role in ...
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Orbital, which features six astronauts on a space station, is about perception, about the idea of ‘big’ and ‘small’, ‘reality’ and ‘illusion’ and about taking a hard ...
In 2003, 7 US astronauts lost their lives when the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up upon re-entry 16 minutes from home.
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