01 April 2020
JAXA and NASA astronauts announced for first operational Crew Dragon flight
...Houston in 1987 as a robotics flight controller for the space shuttle with Rockwell Space Operations Co. She became a NASA employee in...will be the third spaceflight for Noguchi, who was a space shuttle crew member on the STS-114 mission in 2005 and a ...
28 April 2020
Hubble turns 30!
...alone will fuel future astronomy research for generations to come. Hubble's longevity can be attributed to five space shuttle servicing missions, from 1993 to 2009, in which astronauts upgraded the telescope with advanced instruments, new electronics...
18 May 2020
Mystery US X-37B spaceplane makes its sixth flight
... and echoes this design by taking off vertically and landing horizontally on a runway. However unlike NASA’s space shuttle, the X-37B is solar-powered allowing it to remain in orbit for considerably long periods of time. “We’ve learned a lot from...
01 June 2020
SpaceX's Crew Dragon docks at ISS
...“Endeavour” as a tribute to the first space shuttle each astronaut had flown aboard. Endeavour also flew the penultimate mission ...of the Space Shuttle Program, launching in May 2011 from the same pad. This...
01 January 2023
Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention
...takes the reader through Sullivan’s training as a Shuttle astronaut, the history of the Large Space Telescope ...hands on the telescope herself: she was left waiting in the Shuttle airlock in case astronauts were needed to help with the Hubble ...
16 January 2024
Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention
...takes the reader through Sullivan’s training as a Shuttle astronaut, the history of the Large Space Telescope ...hands on the telescope herself: she was left waiting in the Shuttle airlock in case astronauts were needed to help with the Hubble ...
