The next mission, STS-8, saw Guion Bluford become the first African-American in space, launching aboard Challenger on Aug. 30, 1983. The mission also marked the shuttle program's first night ...

Among other stipulations, the shuttle had to be named after an "exploratory or research sea vessel" and the name also needed to be easily understood in space. Almost one-third of the participating ...

R: The Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise inside of Marshall Space Flight Center's Dynamic Test Stand for Mated Vertical Ground Vibration tests (MVGVT). Images: NASA These are the voyages of the space ...

Although it faced a variety of issues upon release, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has become much more playable thanks to numerous patches. Now, a new Space Shuttle add-on is breathing fresh life ...

A research team led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh of the SETI Institute, in collaboration with the Characterizing Atmospheric Technosignatures project and the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center ...

That's one advantage of having a space telescope in orbit for so long: Hubble was launched from the space shuttle Discovery ... methods used to create it, it's also an unusual image on its face.

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The government space agency has vocally promoted diversity and inclusion for decades, even during the first Trump administration. By Kenneth Chang Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s ...

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