Narrator: Even after NASA’s Space Shuttle Program comes to an end, the agency will have the unique opportunity to share its unparalleled tale of flying the world’s first reusable spacecraft . . . and ...
Using a high-energy X-ray system, they turned the satellite effectively transparent, revealing fuel and gas tanks, hidden ...
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex today began the two-day process of unwrapping the Atlantis orbiter from the protective shrink wrap that has encased the priceless artifact during ...
On this day in 1995, Space Shuttle Atlantis rolled to a stop on the runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, completing a successful and historic eight-day journey in orbit. The mission, designated ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – Accompanied by a fleet of astronauts spanning NASA’s entire existence, Atlantis made a slow, solemn journey to retirement Friday, the last space shuttle to orbit the world ...
At 13 minutes past midnight on April 5, the US space shuttle Atlantis is due to blast off from Cape Canaveral in Florida for the International Space Station. In about three weeks, Cape Town ...
On May 19, 2000, the space shuttle Atlantis launched with the very first "glass cockpit." This was one of several big upgrades that were made to the space shuttle before the mission STS-101. NASA ...
(AP) The last space shuttle to soar makes its museum debut this weekend, and it’s the belle of NASA’s retirement ball. The Atlantis exhibit opens to the public Saturday at Kennedy Space Center, the ...
On July 8, 2011, the space shuttle Atlantis launched on its final mission. Atlantis was the last of NASA's space shuttles to fly into space. It went on 33 missions since 1985, ferrying astronauts to ...
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), one of the architects of the Discovery moving plan, said that Isaacman is on board.