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After days of showers rolled through Florida, a SpaceX booster launched and landed for a record time on a Starlink mission.
She was an astronaut, an International Space Station alum, and an aquanaut before she turned 40. It all happened because she ...
Texans from Austin to Houston were left starstruck on Monday as a brilliant fireball blazed across the sky, triggering a wave ...
On May 18, 2025, Lego will release the new Shuttle Carrier Aircraft kit that celebrates the storied space shuttle Enterprise ...
A year after Savitskaya’s space journey, Sally Ride became the first American female astronaut to head to space. The Californian physicist was aboard NASA’s space shuttle STS-7 ... she survived a ...
NASA has excised former Space Shuttle manager Wayne Hale's blog from its website in a reminder that nothing is forever. Hale began his blog in 2008, as the Space Shuttle program was winding down. The ...
The 17th launch of the space shuttle took place 40 years ago today, kicking off the Spacelab 3 mission (STS-51B). [...] ...
On April 29, 1985, the European Space Agency's Spacelab launched on the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51B. This was the second time the Spacelab went to space and the first time it flew ...
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 ...
Hubble was launched by NASA on April 24, 1990, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. The telescope faced an early issue with its primary mirror, which was corrected by astronauts in 1993. Hubble ...
In an era of reusable rockets and near-daily access to space, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch ...