the Earth is not the awe-inspiring “blue marble” made famous by the photos from the moon. From space shuttle height, we can’t see the entire globe at a glance, but we can look down the ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

The flight, carrying celebrities like Katy Perry and Gayle King, reached a height of about 60 miles (96.6km) above Earth.

He has spent time on a space shuttle, the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and the International Space Station. Looking ... the ...

You’d think space would be the one place where computer users would be spared the travails of printing, but as [Ken Shirriff] outlines, there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the ...

Imagine drifting alone in space, with no cord connecting you to anything. It’s the stuff of nightmares or the freedom of dreams, depending on how you look at it. In 1984, four astronauts did ...

Not only is Hubble one of Earth's premium sources for absolutely ... Challenger in January 1986 and the ensuing pause of the space shuttle program, Hubble would wait yet another five years before ...

Its images were superior to those of Earth-bound instruments but slightly blurred due to an optical problem. In December 1993 astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour performed five days of ...

A computer-controlled machine cuts the tile to fit, either from stored patterns or from measurements of the actual space on the ... only after the shuttle returned to Earth. That is about to ...

Louis Stodieck remembers the first time he saw a space shuttle blast off from NASA ... in the not-so-distant future that orbit Earth while making human stem cells. “Space gives us an opportunity to ...