Thirty years ago, shuttle Atlantis & the STS-37 crew snatched success from the jaws of defeat to deploy @NASA’s second Great Observatory. […]
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Twenty years after its launch on shuttle Atlantis, the U.S. Destiny lab remains a critical command and control hub & nerve-center for the @Space_Station. […] 
OTD in 1991, the crew of #Atlantis became the last shuttle astronauts to land on a dry lakebed runway & with no family to welcome them home. […] 
As America celebrates #Thanksgiving, @AmericaSpace looks back at the 1st shuttle crew to celebrate the holiday, OTD in 1985. […] 
OTD in 1989, the crew of #Atlantis deployed the Galileo probe on a voyage of discovery to giant Jupiter. […] 
As @NASA marks 20 years of @Space_Station habitation, AmericaSpace looks back at STS-106, the mission which prepared the crew quarters for #Expedition1. […] 
Today, 30yrs ago, in one of the shuttle program’s greatest photo-ops, Columbia and Atlantis passed each other on their respective treks out and back to the launch pad. But why? […] 
Twenty-five years ago, an enduring period of co-operation between the United States and Russia began with the first shuttle-Mir docking mission. Photo Credit: NASA Twenty-five years ago, this summer, six U.S. astronauts and four Russian cosmonauts circled the Earth together in a remarkable exercise of co-operation between two former superpowers and ideological foes. In […] 
Jim Voss manipulates the Russian-built Strela (“Arrow”) cargo crane during STS-101. Photo Credit: NASA As the United States readies itself for the launch of an entirely new space vehicle next week—the long-awaited voyage of the Demo-2 Crew Dragon, carrying NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken—today also marks 20 years since a (virtually) brand-new […] 
Atlantis spears for the heavens at 2:50 a.m. EST on 28 February 1990. Photo Credit: NASA In many minds, STS-36—a top-secret Department of Defense mission, flown 30 years ago this month—was one of the greatest flights ever undertaken in the three decades of Space Shuttle operations. In his memoir Man On A Mission, astronaut Dave Hilmers recalled […] |
 Next Launch Crew 2 on a Falcon 9 rocket from KSC,FL scheduled for: 22 Apr 21 at 10:11 GMT 22 Apr 21 at 6:11am Eastern 
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