On 30 August 1983, Dr. Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. became the first African American in space, as a member of the crew of the space shuttle Challenger... (Read More)
An article about the three astronauts onboard the badly damaged spacecraft Apollo 13 making it safely back to Earth on 17 April 1970... (Read More)
An article about the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger on 28 January 1986, killing all seven crew members and stunning teachers and students... (Read More)
After seven long years of frustrating delays, the Hubble Space Telescope was finally launched into space on 24 April 1990 by the space shuttle Discovery... (Read More)
An article about astronaut John Glenn’s historic space flight on 20 February 1962, when he became the first American to orbit the Earth... (Read More)
An article about the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on 1 February 2003 that killed all seven members of the crew... (Read More)
An article about Apollo 8, which blasted off on 21 December 1968 and successfully became humankind’s first manned mission to the moon... (Read More)
An article about the Soviet Union launching the satellite Sputnik on 4 October 1957, starting the space race with the United States... (Read More)
An article about NASA’s Apollo 11 space flight successfully landing the first humans on the moon, on 20 July 1969... (Read More)