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 ...

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...

John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA space shuttle ...

This year’s Space Symposium delivered that same optimism, even as political and financial uncertainty raise new questions.

However, if you examine the history of the space agency, it becomes clear that the reality is more complicated. SEE ALSO: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Video ... and NASA's first crop of ...

Space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in flames over Texas ... Six Americans and Israel's first astronaut were on board. In north Texas, people reported hearing "a big bang" at about 2pm UK time ...

NASA made history with the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-31. The launch marked a pivotal moment in space exploration, ushering in a new era of ...

“That was the cool and new thing about Hubble when it was first put up in space -- that ... in different capacities on all five of the Space Shuttle Hubble Space Telescope service missions.