It was a Space Shuttle mission like none other in the 21st century. It was a mission that went nowhere near the International Space Station or the Hubble Space Telescope. It was a mission of pure science. It was a mission five years in the making, a mission of international inspiration. It was the STS-107 microgravity research mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
The Space Shuttle Program – in its near 29-years of service to the U.S. and…
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SpaceX took a step into the future Thursday as it reused – for the first…
SpaceX has conducted its first launch from the Kennedy Space Center since the end of…
A moment nearly six years in the making. Fire and flame returned to the historic…
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Continuing on a developmental track as part of its CRS-2 contract award from NASA, the…
Fifty years ago Friday, the first – but sadly not the last – fatal spaceflight…
Following the loss of its Falcon 9 rocket during a static fire test, SpaceX is…
External Tank 94 is in the final stretch of its voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana,…
Beginning its sixth flight Tuesday night, Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft lifted off atop an Atlas…
Crawler Transporter 2 (CT-2) has completed all of the necessary modifications to upgrade it to…
On 2 November 2000, the Expedition 1 crew to the International Space Station docked with the…
Orbital ATK is making steady progress on the production of the twin Solid Rocket Boosters…
NASA’s veteran Pegasus barge – used to transport Space Shuttle External Tanks from Louisiana to…
Ten years ago today, the Space Shuttle Discovery left the Kennedy Space Center on STS-114. The flight,…
STS-114 was the Shuttle mission that returned NASA to active flight status following the tragic…
A long-serving Earth observation satellite has succumb to a fiery demise via an uncontrolled destructive…
With three years to go until the debut launch of the Space Launch System (SLS),…