Lai Lai Art Gallery, Ampang, Selangor. Date: ends July 29. In her fifth solo exhibition, Me, Then Blue, artist-sculptor Alice ...

Smita Yeole’s father had pioneered making parachute fabric in India in the 1970s. Decades later, it was a chance remark at an ...

The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch ...

The launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite — one of the most important satellite launches in space history, to no surprise — was a success, making the Soviet Union the first to get a satellite into ...

All 135 Space Shuttle Launches happened from Florida. There are two launch pads - 39a and 39b. First the space shuttle is taken to the Orbital Processing Facility (OPF) where maintenance takes place.

The STS-51L mission was originally targeted for Jan. 23, 1986, but was pushed back because of delays with the Columbia shuttle and STS-61C mission just miles away at Launch Pad 39A.

After test glide and landings upon release from aircraft in 1977, the Space Shuttle began orbital flights in April 1981. The shuttle would launch 135 times from Florida — but only 133 would land ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot.

The shuttle would launch 135 times from Florida — but only 133 would land successfully. Challenger exploded Jan. 28, 1986, killing all seven aboard.

In 2004, then-President George W. Bush announced a new space initiative, which included retiring the shuttle by 2010 and conducting the first manned mission on a new spacecraft no later than 2014.