The Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-8 mission) was used to test TDRS-1’s ability to communicate with the Space Shuttle, the European…
Landsat-4 became the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite’s (TDRS) first customer. Within a year of its July 1982 launch, Landsat-4…
Sally Ride (third from left), the first American woman to go into space, and her fellow astronauts on space shuttle…
The Space Shuttle Enterprise, the nation’s prototype space shuttle orbiter, before departing NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 1 (TDRS-1) was launched into orbit by the Space Transportation System 6 (STS-6) Space Shuttle…
The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) was chartered to understand the issues of cross support and develop standardized…
The Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger atop NASA’s Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), NASA 905, after leaving the Dryden Flight…
President Ronald Reagan acknowledges the cheers of thousands of flag-waving spectators gathered in front of the prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise…
President Ronald Reagan chats with NASA astronauts Henry Hartsfield and Thomas Mattingly on the runway as first lady Nancy Reagan…
An estimated 45,000 visitors jammed the back ramp and taxiways at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center on July 4, 1982…