On April 7, 1983, astronauts took the first spacewalk outside of a space shuttle during mission STS-6. This was the maiden ...

Space Shuttle Main Engines In 1995 ... with one hatch opening into the mid-deck and the other into the payload bay. In the early 1990s, the airlock was enlarged to 185 cubic feet and moved ...

The payload bay was 60 feet long with a 15-foot diameter. Unfortunately, in 2002 the hangar storing the Buran collapsed, destroying the lone Soviet space shuttle. Harrison Kass is a defense and ...

The first group of Manned Spacecraft Engineers selected for military space shuttle flights ... is long (hence the need for the shuttle’s large payload bay) to listen in on ground communications ...