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27 de mai. de 2024 · Columbia disaster, breakup of the U.S. space shuttle orbiter Columbia on February 1, 2003. The disaster claimed the lives of all seven astronauts on board just minutes before it was to land at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Crew of the space shuttle Columbia (left to right): David Brown, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, Kalpana Chawla, Michael ...
14 de mai. de 2024 · Higginbotham: I was fascinated by the space program when I was a kid. The shuttle program was really my part of the space program because I was 12 when STS-1 was launched. I remember very excitedly watching it on TV in 1981. I later reported off and on in magazine pieces about the space program, or about space travel, I should say, over the years.
Graphic: a view from the Space Shuttle control room overlooking the launch pad where the Challenger is sitting ready for launch -- but it is up-side down (nose pointing into the ground). A manager is shouting at an engineer sitting at the control panel. Caption: (something like) "Hey, a schedule is schedule.
21 de mai. de 2024 · Paul J. Weitz was selected as part of NASA’s fifth class of astronauts in April 1966 and went on to make two spaceflights: serving as Pilot for Skylab 2 and Commander of the first flight of Space Shuttle Challenger, STS-6. He also served as deputy director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in 1987. Read More
Há 4 dias · The spacecraft would reach a top speed of 4000 km/h (2485 mph). On 23 May 2014, Virgin Galactic announced that they had abandoned use of the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) nitrous-oxide-rubber motor for SpaceShipTwo; on 24 July 2014, SNC confirmed that they had also abandoned use of this motor for its Dream Chaser space shuttle.
24 de mai. de 2024 · Space Shuttle Challenger Posted in: Blog Podcast Season 1 The Great Fail Posted on May 24, 2024 May 24, 2024 On the cold morning of January 28th, 1986, anticipation filled the air as the space shuttle Challenger prepared for its 10th mission.
22 de mai. de 2024 · Sally Ride (born May 26, 1951, Encino, California, U.S.—died July 23, 2012, La Jolla, California) was an American astronaut, the first American woman to travel into outer space. Only two other women preceded her: Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982), both from the former Soviet Union. Ride showed great early promise as a ...
