Planetary scientistand pilot Tom Jones had a long career as an astronaut. While at NASA, he completed four space shuttle missions and three spacewalks to help build the International Space Station. In his latest book,Space Shuttle Stories, Jones documents the shuttle program’s 30-year history ...
Hoping to reach the moon by the end of the decade, NASA plans a series of extremely dangerous, unprecedented missions in the early 1960s. Engineer Neil Armstrong joins the space program, spending years in training and risking his life during test flights. On July 16, 1969, the nation ...
John Matson
Well, later this year, during one of the two space shuttle(航天飞机) missions(任务), STS133 or STS134, your photo will go to the international space station while traveling in one of the two space shuttles. So you ask yourself, is this true? Well, when the mission is over, ...
Haynes NASA Space Shuttle Owners' Workshop Manual: 1981 Onwards (All Models): An Insight into the Design, Construction and Operation of the NASA Space Shuttle Designed between 1969 and 1972 and first flown into space in 1981, the NASA Shuttle will have flown almost 140 missions by the time ...
The programme was set to follow the USA space agency shuttle missions which are due to end in September. On its website, the White House Budget Office says the programme to send astronauts to the moon is behind schedule, over budget and ever less important than other space investments. “...
SpaceX's ability to launch private space missions is rooted in NASA's drive to encourage development of commercial spacecraft to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, ending the agency's sole reliance on Russia for post-shuttle space transportation. ...
Now, with the shuttle program over and the space-flown orbitersdelivered to museums, the FFT is about to start serving its new role: teaching the public about how NASA readied its crews for launch and how that experience will lead in the future to missions out into the solar system. ...
The former NASA astronaut is vice-president of business development for Axiom Space. López-Alegría has flown four times in space already on space shuttle missions STS-73, STS-92, and STS- 113; he was also the commander of the ISS Expedition 14, coming to and from the space station ...
"We know that exploration leads to invention, innovation and discovery," Collins said. "For example, our successful robotic missions to Mars, Jupiter and Pluto have provided valuable information about our own planet, but in 2011, the space shuttle program ended. The last time the United States...