When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Two U.S. cents seen being packed for flight are now the last cents sent into space on NASA missions. | Source: NASA/collectSPACE.com It’s been said that a penny doesn’t go a long way these days, and NASA has now… Read More »
The commander of the ill-fated Challenger space shuttle flight is being remembered on the 40th anniversary of the first space flight in a commercial spacecraft bearing his name. NASA astronaut Francis R. “Dick” Scobee, who flew on Challenger twice (first as pilot in 1984 and then as commander two years later), is also the name… Read More »
In the final days of World War II, one of Hitler’s brightest rocket scientists put forward an ambitious plan to attack America. Eugen Sänger’s design, called Silbervogel or “Silver Bird,” was part rocket, part spacecraft. Shaped like a crushed paper plane, it would launch from Germany and enter low earth orbit; From there, it will… Read More »
CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: Last Flight” reveals the events that ultimately led to the disaster. The four-part documentary will conclude on Sunday at 9pm ET/PT. Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA history, the shuttle Columbia disaster reshaped the U.S. space agency’s approach to innovation, forever shifting the balance between risk and… Read More »
Richard “Dick” Truly, one of the first astronauts to fly on the space shuttle and later served as NASA’s eighth administrator, has died at the age of 86. Truly’s death on Tuesday, February 27, was confirmed by the Space Explorers Association, a professional organization for the world’s astronauts and cosmonauts, which counts Truly as a… Read More »