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…
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…
