When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. On July 23, 1999, NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory was launched into space by five astronauts aboard the space shuttle Columbia as it flew over the Indonesian island chain. | Credit: NASA NASA’s flagship for the last 25 years Chandra… Read More »
NASA’s oldest active astronaut will return to space for a six-month mission in September. 69-year-old Don Pettit will fly International Space station (ISS) as part of the Roscosmos-led Soyuz MS-26 mission, which included Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. Russian state media source TASS said this week that the launch date would be September… Read More »
Created to honor the first woman to command a U.S. spacecraft, the collectible embroidered patch features a geometric pattern representing the space shuttle’s glow rising into the night sky. The colorful, diamond-shaped pieces can also be seen as the metaphorical “glass ceiling” that Eileen Collins broke on her way to the stars. In the latest… 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 »
Forty-three years after the space shuttle Columbia touched down from its maiden mission, CNN is set to air a four-part series chronicling the orbiter’s ill-fated final return to Earth. “Space Shuttle Columbia: Last Flight,” a new documentary co-produced by the BBC and Mindhouse Productions, looks back at STS-107, the winged spacecraft’s 28th mission that ended… Read More »
Editor’s Note: Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. He is the author of the book “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race.” CNN’s Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: Last Flight” reveals the events that ultimately led to the disaster. The… Read More »
Editor’s Note: Douglas Brinkley Katherine Tsanoff Brown is Chair of the Humanities Department and Professor of History at Rice University. She is the author of the book “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race.” CNN’s Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: Last Flight” reveals the events that ultimately led to the disaster. The… Read More »
CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: Last Flight” reveals the events that ultimately led to the disaster. The four-part documentary will premiere on Sunday at 9pm ET/PT. At its inception, NASA’s space shuttle program promised to usher in a new era of exploration by keeping astronauts connected to space with a reusable and relatively inexpensive… Read More »
CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: Last Flight” reveals the events that ultimately led to the disaster. The four-part documentary will premiere on Sunday at 9pm ET/PT. At its inception, NASA’s space shuttle program promised to usher in a new era of exploration by keeping astronauts connected to space with a reusable and relatively inexpensive… 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 »