This marked the only shuttle landing at White Sands. First American woman in space: STS-7 (Challenger) The launch of Challenger ... the construction of Hubble's main mirror was significantly ...
At 5 p.m., President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation. “The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the ...
For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy ...
The first shuttle, the Enterprise, would only be used for testing. It was the second, the Columbia, that had the honor of being the first space shuttle to launch ... over the main engine area ...
Telemetry from the Starship froze eight minutes and 27 seconds after launch following unexpected ... objectives included restarting a Raptor engine in space and the deployment of 10 dummy Starlink ...
At its base are 33 Raptor engines, which together produce 16.7 million pounds of thrust — about double the 8.8 million pounds of thrust of NASA's Space Launch System rocket, which launched for ...