...in human spaceflight. The pair of astronauts docked to the space station’s Harmony module at 16:16 pm GMT Sunday. Behnken and...first space shuttle each astronaut had flown aboard. Endeavour also flew the penultimate mission of the Space Shuttle Program...
... – it is particularly risk averse when actual human lives are involved. Berger blamed Washington’s complacent treatment of the Space Shuttle program for our collective current woes: @carlosfugazi @BadAstronomer I blame DC. Knew for literally decades...
... yesterday – the first commercial flight to do so from Kennedy’s historic pad since it was last used for the Space Shuttle program almost six years ago. Following liftoff on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, a substantial amount of research equipment...
... 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...
...turned the lights back on and finished their work. Another ‘incident’ occurred on 21 October 1995 on board US Space Shuttle Columbia during its STS-73 mission. “We have an unidentified flying object”, joked mission specialist Catherine ‘Cady’ Coleman...
.... Walker was born in Houston and began her career at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1987 as a robotics flight controller for the space shuttle with Rockwell Space Operations Co. She became a NASA employee in 1995, working on robotics and...