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

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"We landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, a few miles away from where I picked strawberries as a kid," Hernandez ...

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Wendy Petrie touches down in Texas on a mission to discover all the best things to see and do in Houston. Spoiler alert: Nasa ...

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The veteran Nasa astronauts completed 17-hour trip from the International Space Station (ISS) with a splashdown off Florida’s coast at around 5.57pm ET (9.57pm UK). The duo returned home on a SpaceX ...

The work of building the Mercury spacecraft, like all military aircraft ... eventual development of the space shuttle, a reusable spacecraft that could glide to a landing rather than be recovered ...

In 1975, Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. In 1983, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off on its inaugural mission . In 1991, Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., and six others were killed in ...

At a Naval Base San Diego press conference, shuttle astronaut Stanley Love — born at Sharp Grossmont Hospital — joined three other astronauts who took part in 3- to 5-foot choppy-water recovery tests.

In 1983, the space shuttle Challenger lifted ... in the midair collision of a chartered airplane and a helicopter that was inspecting the plane's landing gear near Philadelphia.