The first shuttle mission of 1995, STS-63 included several historic firsts. As part of Phase 1 of the International Space ...

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...

Classrooms across America watched the launch. The shuttle was supposed to ... 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center. Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another ...

The STS-63 mission, more popularly dubbed as the near-Mir mission, was a successful mission that spanned from February 3-11, ...

It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy ...

Seventy-three seconds into the launch, the shuttle broke apart ... all of the people who died in the pursuit of space exploration and discovery. As we reflect on the Challenger mission 39 years ...