Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable spacecraft operated by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). [ 3 ] : 5, 195 It flew for the first time in April 1981, [ 4 ] : III–24 and was used to conduct in-orbit research, [ 4 ] : III–188 and deploy commercial, [ 4 ] : III–66 military, [ 4 ] : III–68 and scientific ...
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis 2015357 – Soviet fighter of the Korean People's Air Force defected to Seoul, later flown by Chuck Yeager [100] North American B-45C Tornado 48-0010 [101] North American F-82B Twin Mustang 44‐65162 – configured as an F-82G [102] North American L-17A Navion 47‐1347 [103] North American F-86A Sabre 49-1067 ...
Ellison Shoji Onizuka (Japanese: エリソン・ショージ・オニヅカ, 鬼塚 承次, Hepburn: Onizuka Shōji, June 24, 1946 – January 28, 1986) was an American astronaut, engineer, and U.S. Air Force flight test engineer from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C.
After the Columbia disaster, shuttle flights were again grounded. On Jan. 14, 2004, President George W. Bush announced a “new vision” for the nation’s space exploration program.
In October 2004, the name changed from United States Air Force Museum to National Museum of the United States Air Force. [11] In June 2016, the museum open its 224,000-square-foot (20,800 m 2) fourth building that expanded the museum to the current 1,120,000 square feet (104,000 m 2) [12] of exhibit space. The fourth building houses the Space ...
It discusses the history of the Space Shuttle program, and documents the post-disaster recovery and investigation efforts. [90] Michael Leinbach, a retired Launch Director at KSC who was working on the day of the disaster, released Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew in 2018. It documents his personal ...
In a vast Florida hangar almost 20 years ago, NASA scattered debris from the Columbia Space Shuttle crash across the floor. Accident investigators bent over the burnt and mangled wreckage, trying ...
Henderson, Nevada, US: 2: Space Shuttle and other solid-fuel vehicles: Bruce Halker and Roy Westerfield lost their lives in the PEPCON disaster, an explosion of a factory that produced ammonium perchlorate for solid-fuel rocket boosters of the Space Shuttle and other launchers. 27 July 1989: Kennedy Space Center, US 1 Space Shuttle