by Ben | Mar 13, 2024 | NASA
By Andrew Chaikin, Independent Space Historian and member of the NESC Human Factors Technical Discipline Team I recently watched NESC Deputy Director Mike Kirsch stand before a roomful of engineers at the Langley Research Center and tell them that with every...
by Ben | Nov 29, 2023 | NASA
Forty years ago, in 1983, the Space Shuttle Columbia flew its first international spaceflight, STS-9. The mission included—for the first time—the European Space Agency’s Spacelab pressurized module and featured more than 70 experiments from American, Canadian,...
by Ben | Jan 20, 2023 | NASA, Press Releases
The agency will honor members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery, including the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, leading up to, and during, the agency’s annual Day of...
by Ben | Jan 27, 2021 | NASA, Press Releases
NASA will honor members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery, including the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, during the agency’s annual Day of Remembrance Thursday, Jan. 28....
by Ben | Feb 1, 2020 | NASA, Press Releases
On Feb 1 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was returning from a 15 day mission in space conducting multiple scientific studies.