Exactly 54 years ago today on Jan. 4, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a bill authorizing $5.5 million to develop a ...
Preparations for the inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia passed a major milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 29, 1980, with the rollout of the vehicle stack from the Vehicle ...
The Motley Fool reports SpaceX dominates the commercial space launch industry, commanding 80% of U.S. launches, offering ...
Live updates from the Starlink 6-88 mission, which launched 1:48 a.m. Jan. 4 from Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral Space ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Clouds in the forecast raised doubts Wednesday about whether Discovery would get off the launch pad this weekend for the first space shuttle flight in nearly a year. There was a ...
NASA hopes to repair computer in time for August 7 launch Next Article in U.S. » CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters)-- The U.S. space agency NASA on Thursday confirmed it had discovered the apparent ...
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NASA’s ‘flying bathtub’ taught the Space Shuttle how to land
In 1962, NASA’s Flight Research Center in California approved the construction of a prototype lifting body aircraft, which became the M2-F1, also known as the “ Flying Bathtub .” The designation is ...
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