The unifying message of Monday's all-woman rocket flight is that, for now, cold space belongs to the hot and rich.

On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched onboard Space Shuttle Discovery, and the next day was deployed in space. It was the first astronomical observatory placed in orbit around ...

Similar patterns were ... spacecraft to reach orbit, the first to dock with the ISS, and the first to send astronauts into space from American soil since the Space Shuttle programme.

including launching the first privately funded spacecraft to reach orbit, the first to dock with the ISS, and the first to send astronauts into space from American soil since the Space Shuttle ...

Uranus Findings Can Aid the Study of Exoplanets Now more than 30 years into its mission, the Hubble Space Telescope has ...

You also see the planet’s curvature, cloud patterns, land masses ... ended its space shuttle programme in 2011. Until that time, private space tourists could purchase tickets to go to the ...

The goal is to put huge telescopes—up to 328 feet in diameter—into orbit for ... hold of the space shuttle measures a slim 15 feet in diameter. Lang devised a folding pattern for a 16-foot ...

In short order, as space exploration fell from favour and funding dropped, the production of Saturn V rockets was halted and the Space Shuttle was ... into geosynchronous orbit in 1963 (ref.

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

Italian company D-Orbit has been launching customer payloads aboard its Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTVs) for the past five years. In that time, the company has positioned itself as a reliable ...