there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the story behind them is fascinating. The push for printers in space came from the combined forces of NASA’s love for checklists and the need ...

One of the main elements of NASA’s Space Launch ... for your loading sequence, your timelines, your conditions that you’re going for are all based in thirty-plus years of Shuttle history ...

But not just from any film — these were the 41-year-old labels from the third space shuttle mission to carry an IMAX camera into Earth orbit. The rolls were used in the making of the first movie ...

VAB High Bay 2 Has Room for Core Stage Storage and Vertical Stacking While ... on the far left attached to a proof load fixture.) During the Space Shuttle program, NASA had four storage/checkout ...

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When the shuttle’s main engines throttle up after passing through the point of maximum atmospheric pressure, Bolden reminds the audience that it was at this point of the flight that the space ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A bill introduced Thursday could help bring the Space Shuttle Discovery back home to Texas. “The first word spoken from the moon was ‘Houston.’ To honor that legacy ...

The Space Shuttle Discovery is the back drop as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence chairs the 6th meeting of the National Space Council on "Leading the Next Frontier" at the National Air and Space ...

HOUSTON — Texas U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on Thursday filed new legislation aimed at bringing the Space Shuttle Discovery home to the Houston area from Virginia. The bill ...

She became a pilot and then the first woman to pilot and command a space shuttle through sheer willpower. Alongside all that was the complex emotional journey for her own family. It was this ...

STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...