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Spacewalking astronauts repaired and upgraded the famed Hubble Telescope during five missions from 1993 to 2009. Here's a ...
James Neihouse had one more thing to share. He pulled out a frame displaying strips of tape, each of which had notes from ...
Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...
The space shuttle Discovery launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading through Atlantic skies toward its ...
Reaching Earth’s orbit is a complex, high-stakes engineering challenge, and the Space Shuttle was one of the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to do it. This video explores the nine-minute ...
On February 1st, 2003 at eighteen seconds past 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, the Space Shuttle Columbia ... including a laser depth camera and high resolution cameras. Taking between 5 and ...
The American space shuttle is commonly regarded as the most sophisticated man-made machine ever built. The Buran was similarly complicated, if not as high-quality. The vessel was built around the ...
Nick Charles: On April 14th, the Space Shuttle Columbia touched down on a ... Landing day began with a thick, high overcast; but by early afternoon, big blue patches of sky appeared and there ...
Texas Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are blaming political favoritism for what they call a decades-old snub—and now they’re pushing to bring the Space Shuttle Discovery back to Houston Both ...
HOUSTON — Texas U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on Thursday filed new legislation aimed at bringing the Space Shuttle Discovery home to the Houston area from Virginia. The bill ...
But not just from any film — these were the 41-year-old labels from the third space shuttle mission to carry an IMAX camera into Earth orbit. The rolls were used in the making of the first movie ...