Glorious view of the Home Planet from STS-58, with the SLS-2 Spacelab module clearly visible in Columbia’s payload bay. Photo Credit: NASA
It took three tries to get STS-58 off the ground, 25 years ago, this month.
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An ominous cloud of smoke billows away from Pad 39A in the seconds after a problematic Main Engine Start on 26 June 1984. Photo Credit: NASA More than 30 summers ago, America’s shuttle program should have entered its prime. Touted for over a decade as capable of flying regularly and routinely, the early summer […] 
Having ridden to orbit wearing a heart catheter, Drew Gaffney (left) offers his arm to Jim Bagian and Millie Hughes-Fulford for one of many blood draws. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de A quarter-century ago, this week, one of the most complex scientific research missions ever undertaken rocketed into orbit aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. […] 
Carrying the bus-sized Spacelab module in her payload bay, Columbia drifts above Earth in June 1991. Twenty-five years ago, this week, STS-40 marked the shuttle program’s first mission fully devoted to the life sciences. Photo Credit: NASA For Bryan O’Connor, commander of the space shuttle’s first dedicated life sciences mission, the key concern on […] 
Astronaut Robert “Hoot” Gibson (at podium) speaks prior to Dr. Rhea Seddon’s induction into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday, May 30. From left: Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Chairman Daniel Brandenstein, Kent Rominger, Seddon, Steve Lindsey, John Grunsfeld, Gibson, and CNN’s John Zarrella. Photo Credit: Emily Carney / AmericaSpace Four space shuttle veterans, […] Spacewalkers Jeff Hoffman and Dave Griggs work to outfit a makeshift fly swatter onto the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) mechanical arm, in a fruitless attempt to activate Syncom 4-3’s deploy switch. Photo Credit: NASA Thirty years ago, next week, the crew of Mission 51D watched open-mouthed as a powerful communications satellite which they had […] Spacewalkers Jeff Hoffman and Dave Griggs work to outfit a makeshift fly swatter onto the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) mechanical arm, in a fruitless attempt to activate Syncom 4-3’s deploy switch. Photo Credit: NASA None of the 135 missions flown by NASA’s five-strong fleet of shuttle orbiters between April 1981 and July 2011 could […] In its third incarnation, the mission of Karol “Bo” Bobko finally takes flight on 12 April 1985. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de Three decades ago, the shuttle program appeared bulletproof. In 1984, astronauts embarked on untethered EVAs, deployed satellites and performed scientific research, retrieved and repaired the crippled Solar Max observatory, and salvaged […] The “core” NASA crew of Mission 41F, scheduled for launch on 9 August 1984 for a seven-day flight. From left to right are Commander Karol “Bo” Bobko, Pilot Don Williams and Mission Specialists Dave Griggs, Rhea Seddon and Jeff Hoffman. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de Thirty years ago, this week, the shuttle program […] On Thursday, Feb. 12, four new inductees into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame were announced: John Grunsfeld, Steve Lindsey, Kent Rominger, and Rhea Seddon. They will be honored at a ceremony at KSCVC on Saturday, May 30. Image Credit: Astronaut Scholarship Foundation on Facebook On its 25th anniversary, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of […] |
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