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The space shuttle is back. Discovery stands waiting on launchpad 39B at Kennedy Space Center. It has taken more than two ...
Author Adam Higginbotham joins John Williams to discuss his book, ‘Challenger:A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the ...
At a time when money is too tight for NASA’s science exploration endeavors, Texas senators are willing to pour millions into ...
The mementoes — a set of more than 50 pieces called the Sally Ride Estate Collection — sold for a total of $145,666, ...
Transporting Discovery would be enormously complicated since the two modified Boeing 747s that carried space shuttles mounted ...
Jan. 28, 1986, was the day NASA’s carefully cultivated image literally blew up at 46,000 feet.
“He just blindly sent me a message — to the museum — with this dollar bill and asked if I could authenticate it, that it was ...
Trump’s 2021 executive order named 244 people to include in a garden of American heroes, and $40 million was allotted this ...
The mission was also Tom Stafford's last spaceflight. The Apollo Command Module Pilot, Vance Brand, would go on to fly on ...
Medals owned by pioneering astronaut Sally Ride took center stage in a recent Nate D. Sanders auction and the lots included ...
On June 20, 1983, the crew of the space shuttle Challenger – including America's first space woman Sally Ride -- deployed an Indonesian communications satellite called Palapa-B1 into orbit ...