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A senior at New Vista High School spent her final year of high school redesigning spacesuits as part of a capstone project, devoting more than 200 hours to creating prototype designs to improve ...
NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the ...
Thanks to his love for flight and contributions to NASA, John Denver was nearly selected to board the infamous Challenger ...
In 1988, NASA started making MAGs — Maximum Absorbency Garments — for all its astronauts, said Kiona N. Smith, author of ...
The Subway, as it's known, is one of the last remnants of a now-defunct transportation project created by Disney Imagineers.
A new bill, the Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act, aims to relocate the retired Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian ...
NASA has excised former Space Shuttle manager Wayne Hale's blog from its website in a reminder that nothing is forever. Hale began his blog in 2008, as the Space Shuttle program was winding down. The ...
Hubble was launched by NASA on April 24, 1990, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. The telescope faced an early issue with its primary mirror, which was corrected by astronauts in 1993. Hubble ...
Government officials realized in the 1980s that NASA's Space Shuttle would be more expensive to fly than anticipated. After the Challenger accident in 1986, NASA launched most of its satellites ...
When he was booked to go, however, Kardashian—who recalled seeing her parents cry in 1986 when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded—admitted that she was initially freaked out. “Jeff Bezos ...
Hubble was launched into space aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1990 and shepherded into low Earth orbit by astronauts. It’s been there ever since, at an altitude of roughly 515 kilometers ...
The telescope journeyed into space attached to the space shuttle Discovery. Nicknamed “the People’s Telescope,” Hubble has made over 1.6 million observations of celestial objects since it ...