NASA has excised former Space Shuttle manager Wayne Hale's blog from its website in a reminder that nothing is forever. Hale began his blog in 2008, as the Space Shuttle program was winding down. The ...

On April 29, 1985, the European Space Agency's Spacelab launched on the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51B. This was the second time the Spacelab went to space and the first time it flew ...

But Hubble was designed to be serviced in orbit, and astronauts did just that during a space shuttle mission in December 1993. They fixed the mirror problem, giving Hubble the far-reaching 20/20 ...

the Hubble Space Telescope was launched on the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 24, 1990. Since it orbits above the Earth, it can capture better cosmic images ...