The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was the first mission to be launched as part of the Great Observatories program. HST…
A close-up, front view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD) as technicians prepare the orbiter for…
The Space Transportation System 34 (STS-34) Space Shuttle mission carried Galileo into space for its interplanetary mission. Galileo used gravitational…
Voyager 2 came within 4,950 kilometers (3,000 miles) of Neptune’s North Pole and sent the first images back of the…
The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) was declared operational with three (one in the East, one in the…
The main parachute began to deploy on the mock-up of an F-111 “Aardvark” bomber cockpit section after being dropped from…
The STS-29 Space Shuttle Discovery mission approaches for a landing at NASA’s then Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA, early…
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 4 (TDRS-4) was launched shortly after Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 3 (TDRS-3) by the…
The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, FL, as Mission STS-26 on…
After the Challenger accident, all Shuttle launches were grounded for two and a half years. The STS-26 Space Shuttle mission…