CAPE CANAVERAL ” Discovery and seven astronauts blasted into orbit Tuesday on America’s first manned space shot since the 2003 Columbia disaster, ending a painful, 2 1/2-year shutdown devoted to ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Discovery and seven astronauts headed for a rendezvous with the International Space Station after a pre-dawn liftoff Monday on one of the last missions for NASA's shuttle ...
51 years ago, President Richard Nixon announced the space shuttle program. The effort revolutionized space travel by allowing for reusable vehicles, slashing the cost of previous missions and giving ...
The third launch of the space shuttle Columbia thundered aloft on twin clouds of fire, NASA reported in 1982, shortly after the successful takeoff of the nation's first reusable space vehicle. Those ...
Louis Stodieck remembers the first time he saw a space shuttle blast off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In April 1991, Stodieck, an aerospace engineer, was the associate director of ...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery is on its way to the International Space Station. Discovery and seven astronauts blasted off shortly before sunrise today. They're delivering thousands ...