They also tested the Canadarm on a dummy second payload. Shuttle fleet's Spacelab debut: STS-9 (Columbia) On Nov. 28, 1983, Columbia introduced Spacelab, a pioneering science laboratory housed in ...
It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, ...
Fragments of the $1.2 billion spacecraft, one of four in NASA’s shuttle fleet, fell into the Atlantic Ocean 18 miles southeast of the Kennedy Center launch pad. Blame for the Challenger tragedy ...