Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Drop Test Vehicle (SRB-DTV) released from NB-52B.
President Ronald Reagan addressed a joint session of Congress and announced that NASA was to develop a permanent manned space…
TDRS-1 handled the majority of the ground communications for Space Shuttle Columbia’s Spacelab-1 mission (STS-9) at 50 megabits per second…
The Space Shuttle Discovery rides atop “905,” NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, on its delivery flight from California to the…
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…
