The snow-capped peak of Mt. San Antonio in the San Gabriel range is visible as the remotely piloted Altus II…
The San Gabriel range is visible as the remotely piloted Altus II flies over Southern California’s high desert.
A mock-up of an F-111 cockpit section dropped out of the bomb bay of NASA’s B-52 mothership on a test…
The Goldstone Solar System Radar (GSSR) program was officially established. Throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s, scientists had been performing scientific…
The 64 meter antennas at the three Deep Space Network facilities were upgraded to 70 meter. The antenna in Madrid,…
Originally intended to be ready for Voyager’s Uranus encounter, the Spanish 34 meter High Efficiency antenna become operational in time…
The Network Testing and Training Facility (NTTF) that housed the original equipment for the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN) and…
Russian, European, Japanese and American missions had an opportunity to photograph Comet Halley during its closest approach to the sun.…
Seventy-three seconds, after liftoff, the Space Shuttle, Challenger exploded. Tracking and Data Relay Satellite B (TDRS-B) was part of the…
NASA’s Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down on the lakebed runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California’s Mojave Desert Tuesday,…