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Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 12:00 p.m. EST on October 30, 1985. This was the first Space Shuttle mission largely financed and operated by another nation, West Germany. It was also the only Shuttle flight to launch with a crew of eight.
ESA plans to conduct an orbital test flight of the Space Rider uncrewed spaceplane in the third quarter of the year. [ 9 ] SpaceX expects to perform an in-space propellant transfer demonstration using two docked Starships in 2025—a critical milestone that will allow SpaceX to refuel their Starship HLS vehicle for an uncrewed lunar landing ...
Less than half the expats (49%) agree that moving there has improved their career prospects (vs. 59% globally),” and another 36% are unhappy with the local job market.
STS-37, the thirty-ninth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the eighth flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, was a six-day mission with the primary objective of launching the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), the second of the Great Observatories program which included the visible-spectrum Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Chandra X-ray ...
In November, the Starship took flight again, reaching space for the first time, according to the SpaceX website. However, it encountered issues with the liquid oxygen supply during the flight ...
NASA on Tuesday said it may bring home Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — the two astronauts who launched on Boeing Starliner’s first crewed test flight and have remained on the space station ...
The first German, and only East German, in space was Sigmund Jähn in 1978. Three astronauts – Ulf Merbold, Reinhard Furrer and Ernst Messerschmid – represented West Germany during the time of divided Germany. Merbold made two other spaceflights after Germany was reunified in 1990. He is the only German to have been in space three times.
It is no secret that Musk has an affinity for Texas, but as a business decision, moving to the state has a myriad of personal and professional advantages. He seems to prefer the politics in the state.