On May 19, 2000, the space shuttle Atlantis launched with the very first "glass cockpit." This was one of several big ...

we had to launch the space shuttle at night. The first surprise on liftoff was the amount of light generated by the SRBs. We had darkened the cockpit in order to maintain our night vision ...

On October 3, 1985, STS-51J launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on the first ... from this training are still visible on the outside of the shuttle. You can go into the cargo bay and ...

What they uncover off the coast of Florida, outside of the ... on display at Kennedy Space Center's visitor complex, alongside the charred cockpit window frame from shuttle Columbia, which broke ...

Jan. 27, 2024 The orbiter’s placement marks the first time a shuttle designed for space was assembled vertically outside of a NASA or Air Force facility. Shortly after 9:30 p.m. Monday ...

The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983. Hundreds of cars lined the roads inside and outside the base as onlookers, most of them employees of base ...

It was 37 years ago—on January 28, 1986—that the shuttle Challenger ... on the ground. (In space, where the internal pressure is much lower due to the vacuum outside, the spacecraft could ...