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40 years ago 14th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Discovery (STS 51-A) launches; 40 years ago NASA astronaut Anna Lee Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit aboard STS 51-A; 35 years ago "Byker Grove" begins broadcasting on the BBC
Four decades ago Jimmy Carter was sworn in as the 39th president of the U.S., the original Star Wars movie was released in theaters, and much more.
RONALD REAGAN: Now, we've just had two years of back-to-back double-digit inflation - 13.3% in 1979, 12.4% last year. The last time this happened was in World War I.
Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of the nation’s first reported cases of AIDS. More than 700,000 people in the US have died of the disease since then – and though medical advancements have ...
Space. Nicole Mann becomes first Native woman to go to space with latest SpaceX mission. While at NASA, Ride helped develop a robot arm for the shuttle, the remote manipulator system. She...
Forty years later, we catch up with the directors of "The Day After," "Testament" and "Threads," films that shocked viewers and changed the minds of politicians.
Forty years ago, it made its closest approach to Saturn. Although it was not the first to explore the giant ringed planet, as the Pioneer 11 spacecraft completed the first flyby in 1979, Voyager carried sophisticated instruments to conduct more in-depth investigations.