With Voyager 2’s successful Saturn encounter, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory focused on Uranus, the next stop for Voyager 2. Uranus’…
NASA transferred the station in Fairbanks, Alaska over to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in anticipation of the…
Here some crash test dummies are seen in the passenger cabin of the B-720 aircraft.
Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Drop Test Vehicle (SRB-DTV) released from NB-52B.
President Ronald Reagan addressed a joint session of Congress and announced that NASA was to develop a permanent manned space…
TDRS-1 handled the majority of the ground communications for Space Shuttle Columbia’s Spacelab-1 mission (STS-9) at 50 megabits per second…
The Space Shuttle Discovery rides atop "905," NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, on its delivery flight from California to the…
The Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-8 mission) was used to test TDRS-1’s ability to communicate with the Space Shuttle, the European…
Landsat-4 became the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite’s (TDRS) first customer. Within a year of its July 1982 launch, Landsat-4…
Sally Ride (third from left), the first American woman to go into space, and her fellow astronauts on space shuttle…
