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Sen. John Cornyn introduced a bill, the Mission to Modernize Astronautic Resources for Space (MARS) Act, to provide $1 ...
Mike Moses — who earned a Florida Tech master’s degree in space sciences in 1991 — delivered a spring commencement speech on the Melbourne campus.
Check out scenes from Project Kuiper’s first mission, including during launch and inside Mission Control as the first ...
It’s slightly smaller than the 2,354-piece Discovery set that debuted in 2021, but Lego’s new Space Shuttle Enterprise is ...
Rehoming NASA's fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets of Los Angeles atop a mechanical transporter for three days and nights to ...
A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape. "This caught our attention," Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and ...
When he was booked to go, however, Kardashian—who recalled seeing her parents cry in 1986 when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded—admitted that she was initially freaked out. “Jeff Bezos ...
Hubble was launched into space aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1990 and shepherded into low Earth orbit by astronauts. It’s been there ever since, at an altitude of roughly 515 kilometers ...
The telescope journeyed into space attached to the space shuttle Discovery. Nicknamed “the People’s Telescope,” Hubble has made over 1.6 million observations of celestial objects since it ...
But Hubble was designed to be serviced in orbit, and astronauts did just that during a space shuttle mission in December 1993. They fixed the mirror problem, giving Hubble the far-reaching 20/20 ...
tucked onboard the space shuttle Discovery, blasted off Earth into history. The next day a robotic arm tipped the telescope into orbit from the shuttle’s cargo bay. Within a month Hubble had ...