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

White’s book provides a detailed account of STS-1, the first space shuttle mission ... What caused Columbia to lose 16 of its thermal tiles during the launch of STS-1? Amazingly, it was sound ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

By teaming up with the James Webb Space Telescope, or by scientists delving into its long history of observations, Hubble is ...

LEGACY: 40 years after its pioneering launch, NASA's space shuttle ... Glenn, then 77 years old, had previously been the first American to orbit the Earth. The senators, who called their bill the ...

Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the ...

On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. The space shuttle ...

Space missions are all about precision and planning… or at least, they’re supposed to be. But even in the vast, high-tech ...

David Klaus, professor at the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, was a graduate student at CU Boulder when BioServe’s first launch took off. From 1985 to 1990, he worked ...

Pettit first ... space as a science officer during Expedition 6, launching aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in November 2002 and returning in May 2003 aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule after the ...