37 years after STS-8, AmericaSpace looks back at some of the highs & lows of landing the Space Shuttle at night. […]
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OTD in 1995, shuttle Discovery on STS-70 tested new main engines, was run from a new Mission Control Room & a New Yorker became an honorary Ohioan. […] 
On 4 July 1982, the crew of STS-4 became the first U.S. astronauts to spend Independence Day in space. It also marked the date of their spectacular return to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Photo Credit: NASA On the morning of 4 July 1982, a rapidly-moving black-and-white speck appeared on the horizon at Edwards […] 
Thirty-five years ago, today, Discovery launched on an international, multi-faceted mission. Photo Credit: NASA Thirty-five years ago today, on 17 June 1985, a spacecraft roared aloft with a crew representing the largest number of nations ever flown into space and carrying the largest load of satellites ever put into space at that time by […] 
Startling the birds, Discovery spears from Pad 39B on 13 July 1995. Six weeks earlier, the antics of a pesky Northern Flicker woodpecker had caused an extensive launch delay for STS-70 and extensive embarrassment for NASA. Photo Credit: NASA Over its 30-year career, many things attacked the Space Shuttle, from lawmakers keen to cut […] 
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (right) will pick up where the Hubble (left) will soon leave off, observing the universe in infrared & looking further back in time than Hubble ever could. Photos: NASA April 24 marked the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which has given humanity some of the most […] 
Steve Hawley releases the Hubble Space Telescope from Discovery’s robotic arm, on this day in 1990. Photo Credit: NASA Thirty years ago today, the hands of humans and robots parted company with the Hubble Space Telescope for the final time before it began its momentous voyage to explore the Universe. Almost two decades in […] 
Discovery roars into orbit, 30 years ago today, to deliver NASA’s showpiece Hubble Space Telescope (HST). In three decades of operational service to date, Hubble had done nothing less than rewrite the astronomy textbooks and reinvent our awareness of our place in the Universe. Photo Credit: NASA Thirty years ago today, shuttle Discovery and […] 
Valeri Polyakov, pictured at Mir’s windows during the STS-63 shuttle rendezvous mission in February 1995, is the incumbent record-holder for the longest single spaceflight. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de Last week, U.S. astronaut Christina Koch returned safely to Earth, wrapping up the longest single space mission ever accomplished by a woman; an astonishing […] 
The Mir space station, as viewed by the crew of STS-63. Photo Credit: NASA A quarter-century ago this month, in February 1995, the astronauts (and a single cosmonaut) of shuttle Discovery roared into the night on a mission which performed the first rendezvous with Russia’s Mir space station. During their eight days in space, […] |
 Next Launch NROL-44 on a Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 27 Sep 20 at 4:10 GMT 27 Sep 20 at 12:10am Eastern 
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