Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the space shuttle Discovery ... and expanding its view each time with ...

The no-cockpit ... the last space shuttle mission in 2011, during which American astronauts have had to hitch rides aboard Russian spacecraft. But independence from Russian launch schedules ...

Space Shuttle Challenger ... just like a real launch. There were countless delays, system malfunctions, and frustrations. Suddenly, a short circuit inside set the cockpit, filled with pure ...

Whether they are executing a precision rendezvous and docking maneuver with the Mir space station or greasing another shuttle landing ... A booster would launch him and retrorockets would bring ...

The space shuttle Discovery launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading through Atlantic skies toward its 51-D mission. The seven-member crew lifted off at 8:59 a.m. ET, April 12, ...

The International Space Station never flies beyond 51.6 degrees north and south latitude. NASA planned to launch a space shuttle on a classified military mission around the poles in 1986, but the ...

I had a great chat with some of the 6D folks before this launch. They were fairly honest that they weren ... That said the M/L Alterra fit my 57 cm head perfectly out of the box. There is ample space ...

a veteran of three space shuttle flights, were pulled from the mission. This is Hague’s third launch, although his first was an aborted Soyuz mission. This is Gorbunov’s first spaceflight.

Bright yellow tulips make for a striking foreground for the launch of a new crew to the International Space Station.