Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space ... NASA wanted to take high-quality radar images of the Earth to learn how the environment was changing, particularly ...
At 5 p.m., President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation. “The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the ...
STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...