'Copy and Concur': 20 Years Since Shuttle Columbia's Heads-Up Ride to Space

By Ben Evans, on November 19th, 2017

Columbia launches on STS-87, 20 years ago today. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de

Twenty years ago today, on 19 November 1997, a shuttle mission with a difference rose from Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. It was the first flight from the 39B complex since January, and on STS-87 […]

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'Short-Lived Record': 20 Years Since the Record-Setting Mission of STS-78 (Part 2)

By Ben Evans, on June 19th, 2016

 

Launched 20 years ago, this week, STS-78 still holds the record for the shortest interval between the announcement and execution of a Spacelab mission. It was designed to bridge the gulf between the twilight of the Spacelab era and the dawn of a long-duration research capability aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Photo […]

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'Man, I'm Here': 20 Years Since the Record-Setting Mission of STS-78 (Part 1)

By Ben Evans, on June 18th, 2016

Created as a “bridge” between the final Spacelab flights and the beginning of research aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS) offered a nod to past and future. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de

Two decades ago, this week, International Space Station (ISS) research began in earnest, even though […]

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Mapping Planet Earth: 15 Years Since STS-99 (Part 2)

By Ben Evans, on February 15th, 2015

The Outboard Antenna of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) extends 200 feet (60 meters) into space atop a mast extended from Endeavour’s payload bay. Photo Credit: NASA

Fifteen years ago, this week, the six-member crew of STS-99—Commander Kevin Kregel, Pilot Dom Gorie, and Mission Specialists Janet Kavandi, Janice Voss, Germany’s Gerhard Thiele, and […]

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Mapping Planet Earth: 15 Years Since STS-99 (Part 1)

By Ben Evans, on February 14th, 2015

Computer-generated image of Endeavour performing radar observations with instruments in her payload bay and affixed to the deployable Outboard Antenna on STS-99. Image Credit: NASA

At the dawn of the year 2000, more precise radar maps existed of Venus—thanks to NASA’s Magellan imaging spacecraft—than of our own Home Planet. Although areas of Earth had […]

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Astronaut Scholarship Foundation to Host Fifth-Annual Autograph Show

By Jason Rhian, on October 31st, 2012

Photo Credit: Jeffrey J. Soulliere

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla – Every year for the past five years the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) hosts its annual autograph show. This year is no different. Held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Nov. 1-3 this year’s show will include 33 space flyers.

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