30 years ago, on the very early morning of Dec. 2, 1993, the Space Shuttle Endeavour and the STS-61 crew launched on a high-stakes mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. 30 years after the successful flight, which enabled Hubble to finally fulfill its promise to revolutionize our view of the Universe, the veteran observatory is still making new discoveries and may get a new lease on life deeper into the 21st century.
Doug Loverro has resigned as Associate Administrator of NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission…
Continuing on her streak of missions dedicated to microgravity research, Columbia’s tenure with the Space…
April 12, 1981: the 20th anniversary of the first manned spaceflight in history. On that…
Shuttle managers have begun evaluations into STS-335, the LON (Launch On Need) mission in support…
Flight Day 4 – altered due to the illness of spacewalker Hans Schlegel – will…
In a near flawless opening EVA, spacewalkers Christer Fuglesang from Sweden and NASA’s Robert Curbeam…
