Preparations for the inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia passed a major milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 29, 1980, with the rollout of the vehicle stack from the Vehicle ...
Col. Terry J. Hart, currently a Lehigh University professor of mechanical engineering, on board the Space Shuttle Challenger STS-41C in April 1984. He's launched into orbit, flown high-speed fighter ...
The new shuttle orbiter Atlantis glass cockpit has nine Honeywell Multifunctional Electronic Subsystems (MEDS) liquid crystal displays (see page 54). Atlantis is set for launch with the new system in ...
ABC's Ned Potter gets lessons from an astronaut. May 8, 2009— -- I didn't crash. I am still, to this day, not sure how, but -- honest -- I made a safe landing. I was in one of NASA's snazziest ...
In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House and seven talented astronauts were wrangled into an orbital battle over soft-drink supremacy. In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House ...
A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...
Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...
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