The President looks forward to welcoming Butch and Sunita to the Oval Office when they are recovered," she said ... was widely used before the Space Shuttle era and remains the preferred landing ...

Bruce McCandless II. Photo: NASA NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II stepped away from the Space Shuttle Challenger on Feb. 7, 1984, using a jet-powered backpack called the Manned Manoeuvring Unit ...

In the early hours (IST) of March 19, 2025, a SpaceX crew capsule bearing NASA ... Over the years, but especially in the wake of the Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters in 1986 and 2003 ...

She went to space twice and investigated the loss of the seven-member Space Shuttle Challenger crew in January 1986. 1984: Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space.

WITH A SPECTACULAR LIFTOFF, A HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MISSION HEADS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. AND HERE THEY COME. CREW TEN, TAKING THEIR FIRST STEPS OUTSIDE ABOUT THREE HOURS BEFORE THEY GAVE ...

having flown the first space shuttle flight on top of two Gemini and two Apollo missions. On Apollo 16, Young walked on the moon, so he flew in both the crew service module and the lunar module.

Crew-10 ISS Space Docking Highlights ... including as a lead spacewalk flight controller for space shuttle Endeavor’s final mission, and several spacewalks since. Japan Aerospace Exploration ...

David Plotz talks with author Adam Higginbotham about his new book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space ... people on board the shuttle, and more.

SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission successfully docked at the International Space Station on Sunday morning, setting the stage to finally retrieve the two NASA astronauts who have been stuck in orbit for ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) The SpaceX Crew-10 mission launched from Kennedy Space ...

A hydraulic ground issue at launch pad 39A sparked a scrub of Crew-10's Falcon 9, which was scheduled to lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 7:48 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 12, 2025.

Using a first stage booster making its sixth fight — another first for a Crew Dragon — liftoff from historic pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center came on time at 9:46 p.m. EDT. Lighting up the ...