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The first space shuttle launch happened in 1981 on the 20th anniversary of when Yuri Gargarin became the first man in space, but the launch date was not by design.

Margaret Dean is an English Professor at the University of Tennessee and has authored multiple books on space travel.

For the first time in nearly 50 years, NASA is preparing for a historic first, launching a new powerful moon rocket, the Space Launch System, on its maiden voyage.

On Aug. 29, over 100,000 visitors are expected to dot Florida’s Space Coast to watch the maiden launch of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft on the

NASA engineer David Beaman thinks like a chess grandmaster, always three or four moves ahead. He oversees 1,000 or so team members – all of them working to fly America’s

Wiscasset Republican Committee Chairman, Bill Maloney, opened the Aug. 10 Wiscasset meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. There was a general discussion with the Wiscasset committee members of what they considered to be the most pressing issues...

An industrial engineering doctoral student and NASA veteran received the distinction at Summer 2022 commencement.

Minority astronauts for the space shuttle program. >> nichols enduring beauty, her strength of character, her commitment to human rights will always inspire. >> and she blazed intergalactic trails on tv. initial nichols was playing in a leading role in the turbulent 1960s. cnn analyst bill carter said the series setting allowed nichols to break color barriers during the civil rights movement. >> this was a real powerful, intelligent, commanding person. now, they said it in the 23rd century which...

NASA and Roscosmos still need each other, for now. But they've been preparing to part ways for years, as they aim for new space stations and the moon.

It has been 64 years since NASA started working as the American civil space program and the global leader in space exploration. Anadolu Agency gathered